WoRMS taxon details
Akera soluta (Gmelin, 1791)
217247 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217247)
accepted
Species
Akera constricta Kuroda, 1947 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (and junior homonym of Akera...)
and junior homonym of Akera constricta Stephenson, 1941
Bulla (Akera) tenuis A. Adams, 1850 · unaccepted
Bulla (Akera) tumida A. Adams, 1850 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Bulla ceylanica Bruguière, 1792 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Bulla soluta Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (original combination)
Bulla tenuis A. Adams, 1850 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Bulla tumida A. Adams, 1850 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Bulla soluta Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3434 [details]
page(s): 3434 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Akera soluta (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217247 on 2025-08-03
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Bulla soluta Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3434 [details]
original description (of Bulla ceylanica Bruguière, 1792) Bruguière, J. G. (1789-1792). <i>Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers</i>, volume 1. Paris: Pancoucke. Pp. i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, <i>Zootaxa</i>, 166: 37; <i>Zootaxa</i>, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006
page(s): 377 [details]
original description (of Akera constricta Kuroda, 1947) Kuroda T. (1947). Mollusca (Gastropoda, Scaphopoda and Pelecypoda). Pp.1028-1262, in Uchida K. (ed.) <i>Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Fauna of Japan. Revised Edition</i>. Tokyo: Hokuryūkan. [A second edition was published in 1949].
page(s): 1085, fig. 3076 [details]
original description (of Bulla (Akera) tenuis A. Adams, 1850) Adams, A. (1850). Monograph of the family Bullidae. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), <i>Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells</i>. Vol. 2 (11): 553-608, pls 119-125. London, privately published. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43936916
page(s): 573, pl. 121, fig. 45. [details]
original description (of Bulla (Akera) tumida A. Adams, 1850) Adams, A. (1850). Monograph of the family Bullidae. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), <i>Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells</i>. Vol. 2 (11): 553-608, pls 119-125. London, privately published. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43936916
page(s): 573-574, pl. 125, fig. 169. [details]
basis of record Burn, R. F. (2006). A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. <em>Museum Victoria Science Reports.</em> 10:1–42., available online at http://researchdata.museum.vic.gov.au/marine/burn_2006.pdf [details]
page(s): 3434 [details]
original description (of Bulla ceylanica Bruguière, 1792) Bruguière, J. G. (1789-1792). <i>Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers</i>, volume 1. Paris: Pancoucke. Pp. i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, <i>Zootaxa</i>, 166: 37; <i>Zootaxa</i>, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006
page(s): 377 [details]
original description (of Akera constricta Kuroda, 1947) Kuroda T. (1947). Mollusca (Gastropoda, Scaphopoda and Pelecypoda). Pp.1028-1262, in Uchida K. (ed.) <i>Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Fauna of Japan. Revised Edition</i>. Tokyo: Hokuryūkan. [A second edition was published in 1949].
page(s): 1085, fig. 3076 [details]
original description (of Bulla (Akera) tenuis A. Adams, 1850) Adams, A. (1850). Monograph of the family Bullidae. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), <i>Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells</i>. Vol. 2 (11): 553-608, pls 119-125. London, privately published. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43936916
page(s): 573, pl. 121, fig. 45. [details]
original description (of Bulla (Akera) tumida A. Adams, 1850) Adams, A. (1850). Monograph of the family Bullidae. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), <i>Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells</i>. Vol. 2 (11): 553-608, pls 119-125. London, privately published. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43936916
page(s): 573-574, pl. 125, fig. 169. [details]
basis of record Burn, R. F. (2006). A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. <em>Museum Victoria Science Reports.</em> 10:1–42., available online at http://researchdata.museum.vic.gov.au/marine/burn_2006.pdf [details]
Other
additional source
Beu, A. G. (2004). Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: Revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants. <em>i>Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand</i.</em> 34(2): 111-265., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03014223.2004.9517766
page(s): 233 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Gosliner, T. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
page(s): 46. [details]
additional source Yonow, N. (2008). Sea slugs of the Red Sea. 304 pp. Sofia-Moscow: Pensoft. [details]
additional source Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). <i>Southern African Sea Slugs</i>. Southern Underwater Research Group Press, 7 Blackwood Drive, Hout Bay 7806, Cape Town, South Africa.
page(s): 712 [details]
additional source Valdés Á. & Barwick K. (2005). First record of <i>Akera</i> Müller, 1776, from the Eastern Pacific, with the description of a new species. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 119(1): 43-49., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35185780 [details]
additional source Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector's Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.
page(s): 180 [details]
page(s): 233 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Gosliner, T. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
page(s): 46. [details]
additional source Yonow, N. (2008). Sea slugs of the Red Sea. 304 pp. Sofia-Moscow: Pensoft. [details]
additional source Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). <i>Southern African Sea Slugs</i>. Southern Underwater Research Group Press, 7 Blackwood Drive, Hout Bay 7806, Cape Town, South Africa.
page(s): 712 [details]
additional source Valdés Á. & Barwick K. (2005). First record of <i>Akera</i> Müller, 1776, from the Eastern Pacific, with the description of a new species. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 119(1): 43-49., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35185780 [details]
additional source Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector's Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.
page(s): 180 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | papery bubble snailBubble Sea Hare | [details] |
| German | Papier-Kugelschnecke | [details] |
| Japanese | ウツセミガイ | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (38 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Malacopics (Akera soluta (Gmelin, 1791) Australia, Western Australia, Albany, collected 1982, ex coll. F.J.A. Slieker Jr)
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Malacopics (Akera soluta (Gmelin, 1791) Australia, Western Australia, Albany, collected 1982, ex coll. F.J.A. Slieker Jr)
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
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