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Hypselodoris maculosa (Pease, 1871) 
AphiaID: 209597

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Euctenidiacea (Suborder) > Doridacea (Infraorder) > Doridoidea (Superfamily) > Chromodorididae (Family) > Hypselodoris (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Hypselodoris Stimpson, 1855
Synonymised
taxa
  Chromodoris decorata Risbec, 1928
Chromodoris maculosa Pease, 1871 (original combination)
Glossodoris decorata (Risbec, 1928)
Hypselodoris decorata (Risbec, 1928)
Sources  basis of record: Rudman, W.B. (1986). The Chromodorididae (Ophistobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: Noumea purpurea and Chromodoris decora colour groups. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 86 (4): 309-353. [details]

additional source: Gosliner, T.M., Behrens, D.W. & Valdés, Á. (2008) Indo-Pacific Nudibranchs and seaslugs. A field guide to the world's most diverse fauna. Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Washington, 426 pp.
page(s): 259 [details]


additional source: Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. (2007) Nudibranchs of the world. ConchBooks, Frankfurt, 360 pp. ISBN: 978-3-939767-06-0
page(s): 129 [details]


status source: Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479., available online at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0033479 [details]

from synonym: Pease W.H. (1871) Descriptions of new species of Nudibranchiate mollusca inhabiting Polynesia. Nº2. American Journal of Conchology 7(1): 11-19, pls. 3-9., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54065#page/29/mode/1up
page(s): 16-17, plate 7, figure 2 [details] [view taxon]


Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Red Sea [details]
Tanzania [details]
Links To Barcode of Life
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org)  Note: Same photos as in Rudman (1986).
Note  Synonymy: Rudman (1986) considers that Glossodoris xishaensis could be synonym with Hypselodoris maculosa[details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209597
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
1998-09-22 10:53:32Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-02-21 08:04:41Z  changed  Caballer, Manuel
  
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  Citation: Caballer, M. (2013). Hypselodoris maculosa (Pease, 1871). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=209597 on 2013-05-23
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