Aplysia morio (A. E. Verrill, 1901)
Superdomain | Biota | |
Kingdom | Animalia | |
Phylum | Mollusca | |
Class | Gastropoda | |
Subclass | Heterobranchia | |
Infraclass | Euthyneura | |
Subterclass | Tectipleura | |
Order | Aplysiida | |
Superfamily | Aplysioidea | |
Family | Aplysiidae | |
Genus | Aplysia | |
Species | Aplysia morio (A. E. Verrill, 1901) | |
| Classification according to Bouchet et al. (2017) Taxonomic source: World Register of Marine Species (AphiaID: 160031). | ||
- Aplysia donca Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1960
- Tethys (Aplysia) morio Verrill, 1901
Description
Biology
Etymology
- Aplysia. Derived from Greek word for “dirty”.
- Morio. From Greek “moros”, silly, misshapen person.
Distribution
| Sources: | |
 : OBIS : GROC 2010-2011 : Enric Madrenas : João Pedro Silva : Bernard Picton : GBIF.ORG |  : OPK : VIMAR : Manuel Ballesteros. : M@re Nostrum : Altres fonts : Marine Regions |
References for the species: Aplysia morio
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[includeme] shortcode. This message is shown only to administrators.Sources: Cervera et al., 2004, Ballesteros, 2007 & 2016, McDonald, 2006 and other sources.Abundance
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Bibliography
Ballesteros, M., Madrenas, E., & Pontes, M. (2021). OPK - Opistobranquis [Reference]. https://opistobranquis.info/
Caballer, M., Ortea, J., Rivero, N., Carias-Tucker, G., Malaquías, M. A. E., & Narciso, S. (2015). The opisthobranch gastropods (Mollusca: Heterobranchia) from Venezuela: an annotated and illustrated inventory of species. Zootaxa 4034 (2): 201–256.
Cervera, J. L., Calado, G., Gavaia, C., Malaquías, M. A. E., Templado, J., Ballesteros, M., García-Gómez, J. C., & Megina, C. (2004). An annotated and updated checklist of the opisthobranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Spain and Portugal (including islands and archipelagos). Boletín Instituto Español de Oceanografía, 20 (1-4): 1-111. L.
De la Cruz-Francisco, V., Ortigosa, D., & González González, M. (2017). Primeros registros de babosas marinas (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) del Sistema Arrecifal Tuxpan, México, con ampliaciones de ámbito de distribución. Biodiversity and Natural History (2017) Vol. 3, No. 1, 15-23.
Flanders Marine Institute. (2018). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Territorial Seas. Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. http://www.marineregions.org/
Frank, B. et al. (1998, 2014). Aplysia morio accessed through: JaxShells.org on 2014-12-14. http://www.jaxshells.org/amorio.htm
Long, S. J. (2006). Bibliography of Opisthobranchia 1554-2000. Bayside Books & Press, Tustin, CA, U.S.A. 672p.
McDonald, G. (2009). Bibliographia Nudibranchia. 2nd Online Edition, Annotated. 1072 pp Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8115h0wz
Moro, L., Martín Esquivel, J. L., Garrido Sanahuja, M. J., & Izquierdo Zamora, I. (2003). Lista de especies marinas de Canarias (algas, hongos, plantas y animales). Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias.
Rudman W.B. et al. (1998, 2010). Aplysia morio accessed through: Sea Slug Forum on 2014-12-14. http://seaslugforum.net/showall/aplymori
Valdés, A., Hamann, J., Behrens, D. W., & DuPont, A. (2006). Caribbean sea slugs: a field guide to the opisthobranch mollusks from the tropical northwestern Atlantic. Washington: Sea Challengers Natural History Books. 289 pp.
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.
WoRMS Editorial Board. (2021). World Register of Marine Species [Taxonomic Database]. WoRMS. http://www.marinespecies.org
Further reading
Cite this article as:
Ballesteros, Manuel, Enric Madrenas, Miquel Pontes (2021) "Aplysia morio" in OPK-Opistobranquis. Published: 21/02/2015. Accessed: 31/07/2021. Available at (https://opistobranquis.info/en/mHPQC)
