MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Pleurobranchus testudinarius Cantraine, 1835

WoRMS taxon details

Pleurobranchus testudinarius Cantraine, 1835

AphiaID

140821 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140821)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Typetaxon of

Susania Gray, 1857

Parent

Pleurobranchus Cuvier, 1804

Original name

Pleurobranchus testudinarius Cantraine, 1835

Synonymised names

Daudebardia (Eudaudebardia) tarentina de Stefani & Pantanelli, 1879 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Daudebardia tarentina de Stefani & Pantanelli, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)

Pleurobranchus denotarisi Vérany, 1846 · unaccepted (dubious synonym)

Pleurobranchus forskahli Delle Chiaje, 1822 · unaccepted (suppressed by ICZN Opinion 1767)

Pleurobranchus mammillatus R. A. Philippi, 1836 · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

Cantraine, F. J. (1835). Diagnoses ou descriptions succinctes de quelques espèces nouvelles de mollusques. Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles. 2(11): 380-401., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2880681
page(s): 385 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Italy - Western Mediterranean

type locality contained in Italy - Western Mediterranean [details]

Descriptive notes

Nomenclature ICZN Opinion 1767, 30 june 1994, specific name conserved

Nomenclature ICZN Opinion 1767, 30 june 1994, specific name conserved [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pleurobranchus testudinarius Cantraine, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140821 on 2025-04-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Cantraine, F. J. (1835). Diagnoses ou descriptions succinctes de quelques espèces nouvelles de mollusques. Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles. 2(11): 380-401., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2880681
page(s): 385 [details]

original description (of Daudebardia tarentina de Stefani & Pantanelli, 1879) De Stefani, C. & Pantanelli, D. (1878-1880). Molluschi pliocenici dei dintorni di Siena. Bullettino della Società Malacologica Italiana. 4: 1-48 [14 October 1878]; 49-112 [18 February 1879]; 113-160 [October 1879]; 161-216 [11 January 1880]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40310665 [details]

original description (of Pleurobranchus denotarisi Vérany, 1846) Vérany G.B. 1846. Catalogo degli animali invertebrati marini del Golfo di Genova e Nizza. Tipografia Ferrando, Genova 1-30: , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124151 [details]

original description (of Pleurobranchus forskahli Delle Chiaje, 1822) Delle Chiaje, Stefano. (1822 [1830]). Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del regno di Napoli. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40484#5
page(s): pl. 41 fig. 11 [details]

basis of record Goodheart J., Camacho-García Y., Padula V., Schrödl M., Cervera J.L., Gosliner T.M. & Valdés Á. (2015). Systematics and biogeography of Pleurobranchus Cuvier, 1804, sea slugs (Heterobranchia: Nudipleura: Pleurobranchidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 174: 322-362., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12237 [details]

Taxonomy

status source ICZN. (1993). Opinion 1767. Pleurobranchus forskalii Ruppell & Leuckart, [1828] and P. testudinarius Cantraine, 1835 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): specific names conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 51(2): 164-165., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12251910 [details]