original description
Perrone (1990). Una nuova specie di Aglajidae dal fondo batiale del Golfo di Taranto: <i>Chelidonura orchidaea</i> nov. sp. (Opisthobranchia: Philinoidea).. <i>Bollettino Malacologico 26(5-9)</i>: 105-112
page(s): 105-112 [details]
additional source
Ortea J., Moro L. & Espinosa J. (2007 ["2006"]) Descripción de dos nuevas especies de <i>Philinopsis</i> Pease, 1860 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia: Cephalaspidea) de Cuba y Bahamas con comentarios sobre las especies atlánticas del género. <i>Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias</i> 18(3-4): 33-52. [Nominal issue for 2006; published August 2007] [details]
status 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]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Gulf of Taranto between Policoro and Scanzano, Italy (280 m) [details]
Present 