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WRiMS taxon detailsAplysia parvula Mörch, 1863
138757 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138757)
accepted
Species
marine
Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1863). Contributions à la faune malacologique des Antilles danoises. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 11(1): 21-43., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15338052
page(s): 22-23 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Aplysia parvula Mörch, 1863. Accessed through: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stepien, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138757 on 2026-09-26
Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Aplysia parvula Mörch, 1863. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138757 on 2026-09-26
original description
Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1863). Contributions à la faune malacologique des Antilles danoises. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 11(1): 21-43., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15338052
page(s): 22-23 [details] context source (CoRMS) Ardila, N. E., Báez, D. P., & Valdés, Á. (2007). Babosas y liebres de mar (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) de Colombia. <em>Biota Colombiana.</em> 8(2), 185–197. [details] Available for editors  context source (Bermuda) Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp [details] additional source Bebbington, A., 1977. Aplysiid species from eastern Australia with notes on the Pacific Ocean Aplysiomorpha (Gastropoda, Opistobranchia). Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 34 1: 87-147., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1977.tb00373.x [details] additional source Branch, G. M. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. <em>David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg.</em> , available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details] additional source Gosliner, T. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004631496 page(s): 46. [details] additional source Nimbs M. J., Willan R. C. & Smith S. D. A. (2017). Is Port Stephens, eastern Australia, a global hotspot for biodiversity of Aplysiidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia)?. <em>Molluscan Research.</em> 37(1): 47-65., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13235818.2016.1207280 [details] additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]  additional source 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): 258, figs 6E, 7E [details] Available for editors redescription Thompson, T. E. (1977). Jamaican opisthobranch molluscs I. <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> 43: 93-140. [details] Available for editors status source Golestani, H.; Crocetta, F.; Padula, V.; Camacho, Y.; Langeneck, J.; Poursanidis, D.; Pola, M.; Yokeş, M. B.; Cervera, J. L.; Jung, D.-W.; Gosliner, T. M.; Araya, J. F.; Hooker, J.; Schrödl, M.; Valdés, Á. (2019). The little <i>Aplysia</i> is coming of age: from one species to a complex of species complexes in <i>Aplysia parvula</i> (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 187(2): 279-330., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz028 [details] Available for editors status source ICZN. (1959). Opinion 560. Protection under the Plenary Powers of the specific name "<i>parvula</i>" Mörch, 1863, as published in the combination "<i>Aplysia parvula</i>" (Class Gastropoda). <em>Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 20 (27): 293-302., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34655554 [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species remark In Maltese part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin (Marine Region) : Questionable status in Malta [details]Introduced species vector dispersal in Maltese part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin (Marine Region) : Natural dispersal ? Migration from Red Sea and Indian Ocean via Suez Canal [details] Introduced species vector dispersal in Turkey (Nation) : Shipping [details]
To ANSP Malacology Collection in GBIF (catalog no. 20686)
To Barcode of Life (22 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications) To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Aplysia parvula) To GenBank (50 nucleotides; 33 proteins) To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) To Malacopics (Aplysia parvula Mörch, 1863 Italy, Sicilia) To Marine Heterobranchia (Salento Sommerso) To OPK Opistobranquis To PESI To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS From editor or global species database
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