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Stylocheilus longicauda (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) 
AphiaID: 217246

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Anaspidea (Order) > Aplysioidea (Superfamily) > Aplysiidae (Family) > Stylocheilus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Stylocheilus Gould, 1852
Synonymised
taxa
  Aplysia longicauda Quoy & Gaimard, 1825 (original combination)
Stylocheilus citrinus (Rang, 1828)
Stylocheilus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
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: Willan, R. (2009). Opisthobranchia (Mollusca). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: 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]

additional source: 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]

from synonym: Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 123 [details] [view taxon]


Distribution Cape Verde (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Cayman Islands [details]
Circumtropical (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Colombia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Costa Rica (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Cuba [details]
Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Jamaica (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Lesser Antilles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mozambique [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Puerto Rico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea [details]
Host of  Anthessius stylocheili Humes & Ho, 1965 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Description: Elongasted, translucent, striped body, up to 8 cm long. Often prickly appearance, and with luminicent blue to violet spots or rings. Habitat: shallow seagrass beds and among seaweeds. Distribution: pantropical (Richmond, 1997). [details]

Spelling: S. longicaudus in Vine, 1986. [details]
Image 
Stylocheilus longicauda
Stylocheilus longicauda
added on 2010-11-10 - author: Gustav Paulay
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217246
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-11-12 07:24:15Z  created  Fondo, Esther
2000-07-18 15:57:33Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-04-12 18:06:51Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Stylocheilus longicauda (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217246 on 2013-05-22
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