WoRMS taxon details
Alderia harvardiensis A. A. Gould, 1870
548860 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:548860)
accepted
Species
Alderia uda Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1956 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Canthopsis harvardiana Agassiz, 1850 · unaccepted > nomen nudum
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Gould, A. A. (1870). <i>Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts</i>. Second edition, comprising the Mollusca. Edited by W.G. Binney. Wright and Potter, Boston, v + 524 pp., pls. 16–27. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10897088
page(s): 254, pl. 16, figs 226-228. [details]
page(s): 254, pl. 16, figs 226-228. [details]
Type locality contained in Boston Harbor
type locality contained in Boston Harbor [details]
Distribution Western Atlantic populations have been documented from Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and New Brunswick, Canada; and from New...
Distribution Western Atlantic populations have been documented from Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and New Brunswick, Canada; and from New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland and Virginia, U.S.A.. Recents records from the Northwest Atlantic extended the southern range limit to North Carolina, U.S.A. Northeast Pacific populations have been reported from Alaska south to Elkhorn Slough, California, U.S.A.. Northwest Pacific populations have been documented in Peter the Great Bay, Russia, and in the Sea of Japan. The species also likely occurs in China. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Alderia harvardiensis A. A. Gould, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=548860 on 2026-08-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Gould, A. A. (1870). <i>Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts</i>. Second edition, comprising the Mollusca. Edited by W.G. Binney. Wright and Potter, Boston, v + 524 pp., pls. 16–27. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10897088
page(s): 254, pl. 16, figs 226-228. [details]
original description (of Alderia uda Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1956) Marcus, Ev. & Marcus, Er. (1956). On two Sacoglossan slugs from Brazil. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 1796: 1-21., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/63304970 [details]
original description (of Canthopsis harvardiana Agassiz, 1850) Agassiz, A. (1850). Worms of the coast of Massachusetts. Proceedings of the Boston Society for Natural History. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society for Natural History.</em> 3: 190-191., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870492
page(s): 191. [details]
page(s): 254, pl. 16, figs 226-228. [details]
original description (of Alderia uda Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1956) Marcus, Ev. & Marcus, Er. (1956). On two Sacoglossan slugs from Brazil. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 1796: 1-21., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/63304970 [details]
original description (of Canthopsis harvardiana Agassiz, 1850) Agassiz, A. (1850). Worms of the coast of Massachusetts. Proceedings of the Boston Society for Natural History. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society for Natural History.</em> 3: 190-191., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870492
page(s): 191. [details]
Taxonomy
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 Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Distribution Western Atlantic populations have been documented from Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and New Brunswick, Canada; and from New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland and Virginia, U.S.A.. Recents records from the Northwest Atlantic extended the southern range limit to North Carolina, U.S.A. Northeast Pacific populations have been reported from Alaska south to Elkhorn Slough, California, U.S.A.. Northwest Pacific populations have been documented in Peter the Great Bay, Russia, and in the Sea of Japan. The species also likely occurs in China. [details]
