WoRMS taxon details
Dolabella auricularia (Lightfoot, 1786)
AphiaID: 208629
AphiaID: 208629
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Anaspidea (Order) > Aplysioidea (Superfamily) > Aplysiidae (Family) > Dolabella (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Dolabella Lamarck, 1801 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Dolabella gigas Rang, 1828 Dolabella rumphii Blainville, 1819 Dolabella scapula (Martyn, 1786) (non-binominal) Patella scapula Martyn, 1786 (non-binominal) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Bebbington, A., 1977. Aplysiid species from eastern Australia with notes on the Pacific Ocean Aplysiomorpha (Gastropoda, Opistobranchia). Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 34 1: 87-147. [details] additional source: Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 133 [details] additional source: Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice [details] additional source: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details] from synonym: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Bebbington A. (1974) Aplysiid species from East Africa with notes on the Indian Ocean Aplysiomorpha (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 54(1): 63-99. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Yonow N. (2012) Opisthobranchs from the western Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species and ten new records (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys 197: 1–129. [22 May 2012], available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.197.1728 [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | East Coast of South Africa [details] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mascarene Basin [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 5 proteins) To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: A large bulky sea hare, notable by its trancated, flattened and sloping posterior, up to 20 cm long. Body colour is variable, in shades of green and brown, and the body is often covered in papillae, giving the animals a prickly or shaggy appearance. Habitat: shallow water and eulittoral, under and around large stones and boulders on sand. Distribution: Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1997) [details] Spelling: spelled D. auricularis in Vine,1986 . [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208629 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2013). Dolabella auricularia (Lightfoot, 1786). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208629 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||||||||
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