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WoRMS taxon detailsMelanochlamys diomedea (Bergh, 1894)
576296 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:576296)
accepted
Species
Aglaja diomedea (Bergh, 1894) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Aglaja nana Steinberg & M. L. Jones, 1960 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Doridium diomedeum Bergh, 1894 · unaccepted (original combination)
Melanochlamys nana (Steinberg & M. L. Jones, 1960) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish,
recent only
(of Doridium diomedeum Bergh, 1894) Bergh, L. S. R. (1894). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer “Albatross,” during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U.S.N. commanding. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 25: 125-233 [October 1894]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4179748
page(s): 211, pl. 11 fig. 1. [details]
Type locality contained in Alaskan Exclusive Economic Zone, Washington...
type locality contained in Alaskan Exclusive Economic Zone [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
type locality contained in Washington (State) [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Distribution Fairmount Island, Alaska, to Newport Bay, Orange County, California; 0–100 m.
Distribution Fairmount Island, Alaska, to Newport Bay, Orange County, California; 0–100 m. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Melanochlamys diomedea (Bergh, 1894). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=576296 on 2025-05-17
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Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Aglaja nana Steinberg & M. L. Jones, 1960) Steinberg, J. E. & Jones, M. L. (1960). A new opisthobranch of the genus <i>Aglaja</i> in San Francisco Bay. <em>The Veliger.</em> 2(4): 73-75, pl. 16., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42431565 [details] original description (of Doridium diomedeum Bergh, 1894) Bergh, L. S. R. (1894). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer “Albatross,” during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U.S.N. commanding. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 25: 125-233 [October 1894]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4179748 page(s): 211, pl. 11 fig. 1. [details] basis of record Cooke S., Hanson D., Hirano Y., Ornelas-Gatdula E., Gosliner T.M., Chernyshev A.Y. & Valdés A. (2014) Cryptic diversity of <i>Melanochlamys</i> sea slugs (Gastropoda, Aglajidae) in the North Pacific. <i>Zoologica Scripta</i> 43: 351-369. [Published online 29 May 2014; Code-compliant paper version published July 2014], available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zsc.12063/pdf [details] basis of record Valdés A. (2019). Northeast Pacific benthic shelled sea slugs. <em>Zoosymposia.</em> 13: 242-304., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.13.1.21 page(s): 292, figs 26C-D, 27B [details] Taxonomystatus source
Zamora-Silva A. & Malaquias M.A.E. (2018 [nomenclatural availability: 2017]). Molecular phylogeny of the Aglajidae head-shield sea slugs (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea): new evolutionary lineages revealed and proposal of a new classification. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 183(1): 1-51., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx064 [details] Available for editors  [request]Otheradditional source
Chaban E.M., Martynov A.V. (1998). Megalochlamys diomedea (Bergh, 1893) (Opistobranchia: Aglajidae) - новый для фауны России род и вид [= Megalochlamys diomedea (Bergh, 1893) (Opistobranchia: Aglajidae), a new genus and species in the fauna of Russia]. <em>Ruthenica, Russian Malacological Journal.</em> 8(2): 147-152. [details]
additional source de Montety, L.; Egilsdóttir, S.; Láruson, Á. J.; Micael, J.; Gíslason, S. (2024). A transoceanic journey: <i>Melanochlamys diomedea</i>'s first report in the North Atlantic. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 104., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s002531542400047x [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Kantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. (2006) <i>Marine and brackish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue.</i> Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 372 pp. + 140 pls., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350432257_Marine_and_brackish-water_Gastropoda_of_Russia_and_adjacent_countries_an_illustrated_catalogue [details]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Distribution Fairmount Island, Alaska, to Newport Bay, Orange County, California; 0–100 m. [details]
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Aglaja nana Steinberg & M. L. Jones, 1960) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Melanochlamys diomedea) To GenBank (30 nucleotides; 14 proteins) (from synonym Doridium diomedeum Bergh, 1894) To GenBank (30 nucleotides; 14 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS |
