MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Elysia subornata A. E. Verrill, 1901

WoRMS taxon details

Elysia subornata A. E. Verrill, 1901

AphiaID

181214 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:181214)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Elysia Risso, 1818

Original name

Elysia subornata A. E. Verrill, 1901

Synonymised names

Elysia cauze Er. Marcus, 1957 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

marine

Original description

Verrill, A. E. (1901). Additions to the fauna of the Bermudas from the Yale expedition of 1901, with notes on other species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 11: 15-62, 9 plates., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13463998 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Bermudian Exclusive Economic Zone

type locality contained in Bermudian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Elysia subornata A. E. Verrill, 1901. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181214 on 2025-05-27

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-09-09 10:04:57Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2011-10-03 20:55:38Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description Verrill, A. E. (1901). Additions to the fauna of the Bermudas from the Yale expedition of 1901, with notes on other species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 11: 15-62, 9 plates., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13463998 [details]

original description (of Elysia cauze Er. Marcus, 1957) Marcus, Er. (1957). On Opisthobranchia from Brazil (2). Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Zoology). 43 (292): 390-486, figs. 1-246., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1957.tb01559.x
page(s): 405, figs 35-44 [details] Available for editors

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basis of record Krug P.J., Vendetti J.E. & Valdés Á. (2016). Molecular and morphological systematics of Elysia Risso, 1818 (Heterobranchia: Sacoglossa) from the Caribbean region. Zootaxa. 4148(1): 1-137., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4148.1.1 [details]

Taxonomy

status source Rodriguez, A. K. & Krug, P. J. (2022). Ecological speciation by sympatric host shifts in a clade of herbivorous sea slugs, with introgression and localized mitochondrial capture between species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 174: 107523., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107523 [details]

Other

context source (Bermuda) Carmona, L. et al. (2011). Amphi-Atlantic distributions and cryptic species in sacoglossan sea slugs. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 77: 401-412 [details]

additional source Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] Available for editors

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additional source Rolán E. (2005). Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. ConchBooks. Hackenheim. ISBN 3-325319-73-2. 455 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Marcus, Ev. (1980). Review of Western Atlantic Elysiidae (Opisthobranchia Ascoglossa) with a description of a new Elysia species. Bulletin of Marine Science. 30 (1): 54-79., available online at https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/umrsmas/bullmar/1980/00000030/00000001/art00006
page(s): 66 [details] Available for editors

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Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
English	ruffled elysia	[details]

To Barcode of Life (38 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Elysia cauze Er. Marcus, 1957)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Elysia subornata)
To GenBank (53 nucleotides; 45 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org)
To ITIS