WoRMS taxon details
Gymnodoris W. Stimpson, 1855
206395 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206395)
accepted
Genus
Gymnodoris maculata W. Stimpson, 1855 (type by monotypy)
Analogium Risbec, 1928 · unaccepted
Rhodigina Bergh, 1877 · unaccepted
Trevelyana Kelaart, 1858 · unaccepted
- Species Gymnodoris alba (Bergh, 1877)
- Species Gymnodoris amakusana (Baba, 1996)
- Species Gymnodoris arnoldi (Burn, 1957)
- Species Gymnodoris aurita (A. A. Gould, 1852)
- Species Gymnodoris bernardae De Souza-Canal & Valdés, 2025
- Species Gymnodoris bicolor (Alder & Hancock, 1864)
- Species Gymnodoris boiteuxi De Souza-Canal & Valdés, 2025
- Species Gymnodoris boussionae De Souza-Canal, R. Nakano & Á. Valdés, 2025
- Species Gymnodoris bricei De Souza-Canal & Valdés, 2025
- Species Gymnodoris brunnea Knutson & Gosliner, 2014
- Species Gymnodoris ceylonica (Kelaart, 1858)
- Species Gymnodoris citrina (Bergh, 1877)
- Species Gymnodoris coccinea (Eliot, 1904)
- Species Gymnodoris crocea (Bergh, 1889)
- Species Gymnodoris deniseae De Souza-Canal & Valdés, 2025
- Species Gymnodoris fassioae De Souza-Canal & Valdés, 2025
- Species Gymnodoris feyae De Souza-Canal & Valdés, 2025
- Species Gymnodoris fleuroti De Souza-Canal & Valdés, 2025
- Species Gymnodoris impudica (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830)
- Species Gymnodoris inariensis Hamatani & Osumi, 2004
- Species Gymnodoris inornata (Bergh, 1880)
- Species Gymnodoris knutsonae De Souza-Canal & Valdés, 2025
- Species Gymnodoris lebouteillerorum De Souza-Canal & Valdés, 2025
- Species Gymnodoris maculata W. Stimpson, 1855
- Species Gymnodoris marginata (Odhner, 1917)
- Species Gymnodoris mariefranceae De Souza-Canal & Valdés, 2025
- Species Gymnodoris nagoensis De Souza-Canal, R. Nakano & Á. Valdés, 2025
- Species Gymnodoris nigricolor Baba, 1960
- Species Gymnodoris okinawae Baba, 1936
- Species Gymnodoris pattani Swennen, 1996
- Species Gymnodoris plebeia (Bergh, 1877)
- Species Gymnodoris pseudobrunnea Knutson & Gosliner, 2014
- Species Gymnodoris rubromaculata (Bergh, 1905)
- Species Gymnodoris striata (Eliot, 1908)
- Species Gymnodoris subflava Baba, 1949
- Species Gymnodoris subornata Baba, 1960
- Species Gymnodoris suggens (Risbec, 1928)
- Species Gymnodoris tuberculosa Knutson & Gosliner, 2014
- Species Gymnodoris wanaporum De Souza-Canal & Valdés, 2025
- Species Gymnodoris concinna (Abraham, 1876) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Gymnodoris kouaouae (Risbec, 1928) accepted as Gymnodoris inornata (Bergh, 1880)
- Species Gymnodoris perlucens (Risbec, 1928) accepted as Gymnodoris citrina (Bergh, 1877)
- Species Gymnodoris rubropapulosa (Bergh, 1905) accepted as Gymnodoris impudica (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Stimpson, W. (1855). Descriptions of some of the new Marine Invertebrata from the Chinese and Japanese Seas. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> 7(10): 375-384., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26299600
page(s): 379 [details]
page(s): 379 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Gymnodoris W. Stimpson, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206395 on 2025-12-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Stimpson, W. (1855). Descriptions of some of the new Marine Invertebrata from the Chinese and Japanese Seas. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> 7(10): 375-384., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26299600
page(s): 379 [details]
original description (of Trevelyana Kelaart, 1858) Kelaart E.F. (1858). Description of a new Ceylonese nudibranch. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> ser. 3, 1(4): 257-258, pl. 10B. [April 1858]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18660232
page(s): 257 [details]
original description (of Analogium Risbec, 1928) Risbec, J. (1928). Contribution à l'étude des nudibranches néo-calédoniens. <em>Faune des Colonies Françaises.</em> 2: 1-328 [incl. figs 1-98, pls 1-12, maps].
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page(s): 379 [details]
original description (of Trevelyana Kelaart, 1858) Kelaart E.F. (1858). Description of a new Ceylonese nudibranch. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> ser. 3, 1(4): 257-258, pl. 10B. [April 1858]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18660232
page(s): 257 [details]
original description (of Analogium Risbec, 1928) Risbec, J. (1928). Contribution à l'étude des nudibranches néo-calédoniens. <em>Faune des Colonies Françaises.</em> 2: 1-328 [incl. figs 1-98, pls 1-12, maps].
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additional source
Baba, K. ; Noda, H. (1993). A Rare Collection of a Small Species of Gymnodoris (Nudibranchia: Polyceridae) Held Alive by the Chelipeds of the Crab, Lybia hatagumoana (Brachyura: Xanthidae), from the Bottom off Kanayama Bay, Kii, Japan. <em>VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology).</em> 52(4):283 - 289. [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Remark Placed in family Polyceridae in Macnae, W. & Kalk, M. (1958). [details]
