MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Bursatella Blainville, 1817

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Bursatella Blainville, 1817

Bursatella leachii

AphiaID

137655 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137655)

Classification

Status

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Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Aplysiidae Lamarck, 1809

Original name

Bursatella Blainville, 1817

Synonymised names

Aclesia Rang, 1828 · unaccepted

Barnardaclesia Eales & Engel, 1935 · unaccepted

Notarchus (Bursatella) Blainville, 1817 · unaccepted

Ramosaclesia Iredale, 1929 · unaccepted

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Species Bursatella africana (Engel, 1926)
Species Bursatella hirsuta Nimbs & N. G. Wilson, 2020
Species Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817
Species Bursatella ocelligera (Bergh, 1902)
Species Bursatella lacinulata A. Gould, 1852 accepted as Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817 (junior subjective synonym)
Species Bursatella leachi accepted as Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
Species Bursatella savigniana Audouin, 1826 accepted as Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1817). Bursatella, p. 138, in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 5, supplément. Levrault, Strasbourg & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23001647
page(s): 138 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Bursatella Blainville, 1817. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137655 on 2025-05-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-04-04 07:14:05Z

changed

Vandepitte, Leen

2011-04-12 18:06:51Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2013-09-10 08:54:59Z

changed

Caballer, Manuel

2020-01-26 23:51:41Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1817). Bursatella, p. 138, in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 5, supplément. Levrault, Strasbourg & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23001647
page(s): 138 [details]

original description (of Aclesia Rang, 1828) Rang, S. (1828). Histoire naturelle des Aplysiens. Paris: Firmin Didot. 83 pp. 24 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14983674
page(s): 68 [details]

original description (of Barnardaclesia Eales & Engel, 1935) Eales, N.; Engel, H. (1935). The genus Bursatella De Blainville. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 21: 279-303.
page(s): 282 [details]

original description (of Ramosaclesia Iredale, 1929) Iredale, T. (1929). Strange molluscs in Sydney Harbour. Australian Zoologist. 5(4): 337-352., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38709514
page(s): 352 [details]

Taxonomy

redescription Bazzicalupo, E., Crocetta, F., Gosliner, T. M., Berteaux-Lecellier, V., Camacho-García, Y. E., Chandran, B. K. S. & Valdés, Á. (2020). Molecular and morphological systematics of Bursatella leachii de Blainville, 1817 and Stylocheilus striatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 reveal cryptic diversity in pantropically distributed taxa (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Heterobranchia). Invertebrate Systematics. 34: 535-568., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/is19056 [details]

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Publication date Blainville (1817) refers to a supposed earlier publication in a supplement of "Encyclopaedia Britannica" but de Férussac (1822) reports that it was not printed. [details]

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