WoRMS name details
Discodoris confusa Ballesteros, Llera & Ortea, 1985
139563 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139563)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Ballesteros M., Llera E. M. & Ortea J. (1985). Revision de les Doridacea (Mollusca: Opistobranchia) del Atlantico nordeste atribuibles al complejo maculosa-fragilis. <i>Bollettino Malacologico</i>, 20 (9-12): 227-257. [details]
Taxonomy Following Dayrat (2010), this becomes synonym of Discodoris maculosa Bergh, 1884, which itself is subsumed in “Tayuva...
Taxonomy Following Dayrat (2010), this becomes synonym of Discodoris maculosa Bergh, 1884, which itself is subsumed in “Tayuva lilacina of Mediterranean and Eastern European Atlantic”; however this synonymy is not unanimously accepted and the species is therefore treated here as "alternate representation". This species was misidentified as Discodoris fragilis by Ortea, Bacallado & Sánchez, 1981
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MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Discodoris confusa Ballesteros, Llera & Ortea, 1985. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139563 on 2025-05-03
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Nomenclature
original description
Ballesteros M., Llera E. M. & Ortea J. (1985). Revision de les Doridacea (Mollusca: Opistobranchia) del Atlantico nordeste atribuibles al complejo maculosa-fragilis. <i>Bollettino Malacologico</i>, 20 (9-12): 227-257. [details]
Other
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Taxonomy Following Dayrat (2010), this becomes synonym of Discodoris maculosa Bergh, 1884, which itself is subsumed in “Tayuva lilacina of Mediterranean and Eastern European Atlantic”; however this synonymy is not unanimously accepted and the species is therefore treated here as "alternate representation". This species was misidentified as Discodoris fragilis by Ortea, Bacallado & Sánchez, 1981[details]
