Manuel Ballesteros

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Biological cycle of two outstanding nudibranchs from Antarctica

Manuel Ballesteros Emeritus Professor, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Biologia Avda. Diagonal, 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain Email: mballesteros@ub.edu Introduction Nudibranchs living in the ocean surrounding Antarctica have been of interest to naturalists and scientists since the first oceanographic surveys of the Antarctic seabed in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the scientific expeditions that describe nudibranch species, it is worth mentioning those of the Challenger (Bergh, 1884), the Scottish…

“Resurrecting” species: the case of the sea slug Dendrodoris temarana

Dendrodoris temarana by Manuel Ballesteros

by Manuel Ballesteros Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, mballesteros@ub.edu A scientific article (Galià-Camps et al., 2022) has been recently published in which the validity of a “forgotten” sea slug species (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia) was reinstated, as it had been considered a synonymous of other Mediterranean species. Here I tell the story of Dendrodoris temarana Pruvot-Fol, 1953 in the scientific literature and also “my story” with it, with numerous personal experiences…

Flabellinidae, a family of nudibranchs in controversy

Several articles have been published during year 2017 that show a series of conclusions that affect the phylogenies of different nudibranch families. Among these articles there are two that significantly affect the Flabellinidae family. Here we compare the results of both and draw our own conclusions.

Biological cycle of two outstanding nudibranchs from Antarctica

“Resurrecting” species: the case of the sea slug Dendrodoris temarana

Flabellinidae, a family of nudibranchs in controversy

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