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CaRMS taxon detailsAlderia modesta (Lovén, 1844)
141555 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141555)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish,
(of ) Lovén, S. (1844). Om nordiska hafs-mollusker. <em>Öfversigt af Kungliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 1(3): 48-53., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2602980
page(s): 49 [details]
Distribution Alderia modesta is the only species of Alderia found in the northeastern Atlantic. European populations have been widely...
Distribution Alderia modesta is the only species of Alderia found in the northeastern Atlantic. European populations have been widely reported from the United Kingdom and Ireland, Scandinavia and surrounding waters, the German Baltic coast as well as estuaries in the Netherlands, Belgium and France. There are no confirmed records from the Mediterranean. [details] Distribution This species is a typical brackish species.
Distribution This species is a typical brackish species. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Alderia modesta (Lovén, 1844). Accessed through: Kennedy, M.K., L. Van Guelpen, G. Pohle, L. Bajona (Eds.) (2021) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141555 on 2025-09-14
Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Alderia modesta (Lovén, 1844). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141555 on 2025-09-14
original description
(of ) Lovén, S. (1844). Om nordiska hafs-mollusker. <em>Öfversigt af Kungliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 1(3): 48-53., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2602980
page(s): 49 [details] basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details] additional source Bleakney, J. S. (1996). Sea slugs of Atlantic Canada and the Gulf of Maine. <em>The Nova Scotia Museum Field Guide Series. Nimbus Publishing. Halifax.</em> 1-216. [details] additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors status source Ellingson, R. A.; Vo, J.; Llaban, A.; Lugo, L. M.; Vendetti, J. E.; Krug, P. J. (2025). Coastal elites: Recurrent trans‐Arctic migration and vicariance in a cosmopolitan sea slug driven by Pleistocene glacial cycles. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12738: 1-19., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12738 [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Distribution Alderia modesta is the only species of Alderia found in the northeastern Atlantic. European populations have been widely reported from the United Kingdom and Ireland, Scandinavia and surrounding waters, the German Baltic coast as well as estuaries in the Netherlands, Belgium and France. There are no confirmed records from the Mediterranean. [details]Unreviewed
Classification Vader (1981) has placed A. modesta in a new family: Alderiidae. [details]Dimensions maximum size of 6 to 8 mm [details] Distribution This species is a typical brackish species. [details] Habitat infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (83 publications) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Alderia modesta) To GenBank (105 nucleotides; 93 proteins) To PESI To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 010783.GP) To ITIS Unreviewed
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