WoRMS taxon details
Scyllaeidae Alder & Hancock, 1855
23115 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:23115)
accepted
Family
- Genus Crosslandia Eliot, 1902
- Genus Notobryon Odhner, 1936
- Genus Scyllaea Linnaeus, 1758
- Genus Nerea R. P. Lesson, 1831 accepted as Scyllaea Linnaeus, 1758
- Genus Zoopterygius Osbeck, 1757 accepted as Scyllaea Linnaeus, 1758 (non-binominal)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Alder J. & Hancock A. (1845-1855). <i>A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca: with figures of all the species</i>. London: Ray Society. Part 1 (1845): fam. 1, pls 4, 5, 26; fam. 3, pls 3, 21, 24, 26, 34-36. Part 2 (1846): fam. 1, pls 10, 13, 18, 23; fam. 3, pls 1, 2, 4, 6, 12, 15, 23, 30, 42. Part 3 (1847): fam. 1, pls 6, 8, 19, 25; fam. 2, pl. 3; fam. 3, pls 1a, 7, 19, 28, 31, 33. Part 4 (1848): fam. 1, pls 7, 14, 20, 21, 24; fam. 2, pl. 5; fam. 3, pls 11, 13, 14, 20, 25, 40. Part 5 (1851): fam. 1, pls 1, 2, 12, 15, 16, 22; fam. 2, pl. 4; fam. 3, pls 5, 16, 17, 27, 37, 39, 43. Part 6 (1854): fam. 1, pls 3, 9, 11, 17; fam. 3, pls 9, 10, 18, 22, 29, 32, 41, 44. Part 7 (1855): pp. 1-54, fam. 1, pls 21a, 27; fam. 2, pls 1, 2; fam. 3, pls. 38a, 45-48. Appendix, pp. i-xl. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41957697
page(s): Appendix, xx [details]
page(s): Appendix, xx [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Scyllaeidae Alder & Hancock, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23115 on 2026-02-07
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Nomenclature
original description
Alder J. & Hancock A. (1845-1855). <i>A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca: with figures of all the species</i>. London: Ray Society. Part 1 (1845): fam. 1, pls 4, 5, 26; fam. 3, pls 3, 21, 24, 26, 34-36. Part 2 (1846): fam. 1, pls 10, 13, 18, 23; fam. 3, pls 1, 2, 4, 6, 12, 15, 23, 30, 42. Part 3 (1847): fam. 1, pls 6, 8, 19, 25; fam. 2, pl. 3; fam. 3, pls 1a, 7, 19, 28, 31, 33. Part 4 (1848): fam. 1, pls 7, 14, 20, 21, 24; fam. 2, pl. 5; fam. 3, pls 11, 13, 14, 20, 25, 40. Part 5 (1851): fam. 1, pls 1, 2, 12, 15, 16, 22; fam. 2, pl. 4; fam. 3, pls 5, 16, 17, 27, 37, 39, 43. Part 6 (1854): fam. 1, pls 3, 9, 11, 17; fam. 3, pls 9, 10, 18, 22, 29, 32, 41, 44. Part 7 (1855): pp. 1-54, fam. 1, pls 21a, 27; fam. 2, pls 1, 2; fam. 3, pls. 38a, 45-48. Appendix, pp. i-xl. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41957697
page(s): Appendix, xx [details]
basis of record Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. <em>Malacologia.</em> 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25127200 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): Appendix, xx [details]
basis of record Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. <em>Malacologia.</em> 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25127200 [details] Available for editors
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Goodheart, J. A.; Bazinet, A. L.; Valdés, Á.; Collins, A. G.; Cummings, M. P. (2017). Prey preference follows phylogeny: evolutionary dietary patterns within the marine gastropod group Cladobranchia (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia). <em>BMC Evolutionary Biology.</em> 17(1)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1066-0 [details] 
redescription Pola M., Camacho-Garcia Y.E. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Molecular data illuminate cryptic nudibranch species: the evolution of the Scyllaeidae (Nudibranchia: Dendronotina) with a revision of <i>Notobryon</i>. <i>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society</i> 165: 311–336., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00816.x [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription Pola M., Camacho-Garcia Y.E. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Molecular data illuminate cryptic nudibranch species: the evolution of the Scyllaeidae (Nudibranchia: Dendronotina) with a revision of <i>Notobryon</i>. <i>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society</i> 165: 311–336., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00816.x [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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| Japanese | オキウミウシ科 | [details] |
