WoRMS taxon details
Bursatella leachi [sic]
AphiaID: 217240
AphiaID: 217240
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Anaspidea (Order) > Aplysioidea (Superfamily) > Aplysiidae (Family) > Bursatella (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (misspelling) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Bursatella Blainville, 1817 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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] additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Distribution | East Coast of South Africa [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] South Coast of South Africa [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: A broad, plump sea slug, up to 7cm, varying in colour from tan to brown or orange. Body is covered in simple and/or branched papillae. There can be black dots and markings, or blue or green spots ringed with pale orange. Swims by jet propulsion, somersaulting through the water. Habitat: lagoons, estuaries, tidal rock pools and shallow sublittoral. Distribution: pantropical. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217240 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Bursatella leachi [sic]. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217240 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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