Philinopsis speciosa Pease, 1860
Superdomain | Biota | |
Kingdom | Animalia | |
Phylum | Mollusca | |
Class | Gastropoda | |
Subclass | Heterobranchia | |
Infraclass | Euthyneura | |
Subterclass | Tectipleura | |
Order | Cephalaspidea | |
Superfamily | Philinoidea | |
Family | Aglajidae | |
Genus | Philinopsis | |
Species | Philinopsis speciosa Pease, 1860 | |
Classification according to Bouchet et al. (2017) Taxonomic source: World Register of Marine Species (AphiaID: 559039). |
Synonyms
- Aglaja cyanea (Martens, 1879)
- Doridium cyaneum Martens, 1879
- Philinopsis cyanea (Martens, 1879)
Description
Biology
Etymology
- Philinopsis: means similar to Philine, where Philine is another genus of Cephalaspideans.
- Philine. Derived from Greek “philainoi”, name of two Carthaginian brothers who fougth for their homeland and who received honors as Gods.
- Speciosa. From Latin “speciose”, with elegance, magnificently.
Distribution
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Abundance
Western Mediterranean: | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
Eastern Mediterranean: | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
Atlantic Ocean: | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
Video
Philinopsis speciosa @ Mooloolah River, Queensland, Australia 12-01-2019 by Gary Cobb
Philinopsis speciosa @ Tulamben, Bali by Cix Cutez @ Nudibase (Facebook)
More pictures
Bibliography
Ballesteros, M., E. Madrenas, and M. Pontes. 2023. OPK - Opistobranquis. (https://opistobranquis.info/).
Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Reports 10:1–42.
Camacho-García, Y. E., E. Ornelas-Gatdula, T. M. Gosliner, and Á. Valdés. 2014. Phylogeny of the family Aglajidae (Pilsbry, 1895) (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea) inferred from mtDNA and nDNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 71: 113–126.
Flanders Marine Institute. 2018. Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Territorial Seas. Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. (http://www.marineregions.org/).
Imamoto, J. 2001. Philinopsis speciosa accessed through: Umiushi.info on 2014-12-14. (http://www.umiushi.info/kanri/photo_sql_eng.php?act=PSP&gakumei1=Philinopsis&gakumei2=speciosa&location_code=0000#).
Katsanevakis, S., K. Bogucarskis, F. Gatto, J. Vandekerkhove, I. Deriu, and A. S. Cardoso. 2012. Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. BioInvasions Records. 1: 235-245.
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).
Mienis, H. K. 2010. Monitoring the invasion of the Eastern Mediterranean by Lessepsian migrants and other Indo-Pacific Mollusca. Haasiana, 5: 66-68.
Oskars, T. R., P. Bouchet, and M. A. E. Malaquias. 2015. A new phylogeny of the Cephalaspidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia)based on expanded taxon sampling and gene markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 89 (2015) 130–150.
Pease, W. H. 1860. Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the Sandwich Islands (Part II). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1860, 141–148.
Rudman W.B. et al. 1998. Philinopsis speciosa accessed through: Sea Slug Forum on 2014-12-14. (http://seaslugforum.net/showall/philspec).
Valdés, Á. 2008. Deep-sea “cephalaspidean” heterobranchs (Gastropoda) from the tropical southwest Pacific. Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle 196:587-792.
WoRMS Editorial Board. 2023. World Register of Marine Species. WoRMS. (http://www.marinespecies.org).
Yonow, N. 2012. Opisthobranchs from the western Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species and ten new records (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys. 197: 1–129.
Zamora-Silva, A., and M. A. E. Malaquias. 2017. Molecular phylogeny of the Aglajidae head-shield sea slugs (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea): new evolutionary lineages revealed and proposal of a new classification. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2017, XX, 1–51.
Further reading
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Flickr pictures
- Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
- Medslugs (Ind.E)
- Medslugs (Ind.NW)
- Medslugs (Ind.SW)
- Medslugs (Pac.NW)
- Medslugs (Pac.SW)
- Medslugs (Pac.W)
- NCBI GenBank
- OBIS - Search by Taxon
- Sea Slug Forum
- Sea Slugs of Hawai'i
- Southwest Indian Ocean Sea Slug website
- The Slug Site
- Underwater Kwajalein
- World Register of Marine Species
Cite this article as:
Ballesteros, M., Madrenas, E. & Pontes, M. (2023) "Philinopsis speciosa" in OPK-Opistobranquis. Published: 01/05/2015. Accessed: 31/01/2023. Available at (https://opistobranquis.info/en/vfvvU)