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WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Tritonia festiva (Stearns, 1873)

WoRMS taxon details

Tritonia festiva (Stearns, 1873)

AphiaID

549413 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:549413)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Tritonia Cuvier, 1797

Original name

Lateribranchiaea festiva Stearns, 1873

Synonymised names

Lateribranchiaea festiva Stearns, 1873 · unaccepted (original combination)

Sphaerostoma undulata O'Donoghue, 1924 · unaccepted

Tritonia reticulata Bergh, 1882 · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Lateribranchiaea festiva Stearns, 1873) Stearns, R. E. (1873). Descriptions of a new genus and two new species of nudibranchiate mollusks from the coast of California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 5: 77-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16062632 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Tritonia festiva (Stearns, 1873). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=549413 on 2026-09-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-12-01 22:12:57Z

created

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Sphaerostoma undulata O'Donoghue, 1924) O'Donoghue, C.H. (1924). Notes on the nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Vancouver Island region. IV. Additional species and records. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute. 15(1):1-33, pls. 1-2.
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original description (of Lateribranchiaea festiva Stearns, 1873) Stearns, R. E. (1873). Descriptions of a new genus and two new species of nudibranchiate mollusks from the coast of California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 5: 77-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16062632 [details]

basis of record Gosliner T.M. (1996). The Opisthobranchia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 2 – The Gastropoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 9: 161-213. [details]

Other

additional source 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): 129 [details]