WoRMS name details
Okenia mexicorum Gosliner & Bertsch, 2004
388776 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:388776)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Gosliner T. M.; Bertsch H. (2004). Systematics of <em>Okenia</em> from the Pacific coast of North America (Nudibranchia: Goniodorididae) with descriptions of three new species. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> (4) 55(22): 414-430., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/scipubs/pdfs/v55/proccas_v55_n22.pdf [details] Available for editors 
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Ortea, J.; Espinosa, J. (2000). Nueva especie del género <em>Okenia</em> Menke, 1830 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) de Cuba. <em>Avicennia.</em> 12 (13) (2000), pp. 84-86. [details]
[request]Ortea, J.; Espinosa, J. (2000). Nueva especie del género <em>Okenia</em> Menke, 1830 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) de Cuba. <em>Avicennia.</em> 12 (13) (2000), pp. 84-86. [details]
Type locality contained in Mexico
, Note Mismaloya, Bahia de Banderas, Jalisco
type locality contained in Mexico (origin: native) [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Mismaloya, Bahia de Banderas, Jalisco [details]
Etymology "This species was named in honor of Alicia Hermosillo and Orso Angulo-Campillo. The masculine plural ending is used for...
Etymology "This species was named in honor of Alicia Hermosillo and Orso Angulo-Campillo. The masculine plural ending is used for eponyms honoring a woman and a man, in this case "of the Mexicans" Alicia and Orso." (Bertsch et al., 2025: 98). [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Okenia mexicorum Gosliner & Bertsch, 2004. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=388776 on 2025-08-14
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Nomenclature
original description
Gosliner T. M.; Bertsch H. (2004). Systematics of <em>Okenia</em> from the Pacific coast of North America (Nudibranchia: Goniodorididae) with descriptions of three new species. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> (4) 55(22): 414-430., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/scipubs/pdfs/v55/proccas_v55_n22.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
original description Ortea, J.; Espinosa, J. (2000). Nueva especie del género <em>Okenia</em> Menke, 1830 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) de Cuba. <em>Avicennia.</em> 12 (13) (2000), pp. 84-86. [details]
[request]original description Ortea, J.; Espinosa, J. (2000). Nueva especie del género <em>Okenia</em> Menke, 1830 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) de Cuba. <em>Avicennia.</em> 12 (13) (2000), pp. 84-86. [details]
Other
additional source
Bertsch, H., Groves, L. T. & Dees, R. (2025). Invertebrate eponyms honoring women members of the Western Society of Malacologists. <em>The Western Society of Malacologists, Occasional Papers.</em> Number 4: 1-270, pls. 1-S263A-L.
page(s): 97-98, pl. S254 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 97-98, pl. S254 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Etymology "This species was named in honor of Alicia Hermosillo and Orso Angulo-Campillo. The masculine plural ending is used for eponyms honoring a woman and a man, in this case "of the Mexicans" Alicia and Orso." (Bertsch et al., 2025: 98). [details]Type locality Mismaloya, Bahia de Banderas, Jalisco [details]
