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Tergipes tergipes (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775) 
AphiaID: 141641

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Dexiarchia (Suborder) > Aeolidida (Infraorder) > Fionoidea (Superfamily) > Tergipedidae (Family) > Tergipes (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Tergipes Cuvier, 1805
Synonymised
taxa
  Eolidia despecta Johnston, 1838 (synonym)
Limax tergipes Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775 (original combination)
Tergipes despectus (Johnston, 1835) (following the synonymy of Eolidia despecta Johnston, 1838)
Sources  basis of record: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA., available online at http://www.malacolog.org [details]

additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record (from synonym): Polk, Ph. (1976). Inventarisatie plankton: fauna en flora [Plankton inventory : fauna and flora], in: Nihoul, J.C.J.; De Coninck, L. (Ed.) (1976). Project Sea final report: 7. Inventory of fauna and flora. Project Sea final report, 7: pp. 233-311 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

additional source (from synonym): Edmunds M. & Kress A. (1969). On the european species of Eubranchus (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 49 (4): 879-912
page(s): 902 [details] [view taxon]


original description (from synonym): Niebuhr C. (ed.) (1775). Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål, prof. Haun., post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Hauniae [Copengagen], Möller, pp. 1-19 + i-xxxiv + 1-164, 1 map. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18564
page(s): 99 [details] [view taxon]


Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch slanke knotsslak  [details]
English Johnston's balloon eolis  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
British Isles [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Grevelingen [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Ukrainian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wadden Sea [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org)
To ITIS
Notes  Authority: The speciesname Limax tergipes Forskäl, 1775 is stated as valid by the ICZN (Op. 773). [details]

Dimensions: maximum size of 3 to 11 mm [details]

Distribution: western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland; Brazil  [details]

Habitat: infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Image 
Tergipes tergipes (Forsskål, 1775)
Tergipes tergipes (Forsskål, 1775)
added on 2006-04-06 - author: BioMar-TCD
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141641
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
2013-03-05 10:18:49Z  changed  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
2013-03-31 11:25:58Z  changed  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Tergipes tergipes (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141641 on 2013-06-19
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