Polycera faeroensis

Polycera faeroensis (Lemche, 1929)

Polycera faeroensis by Luis Ángel Díaz Álvarez

Taxonomy

	Superdomain	Biota
	Kingdom	Animalia
	Phylum	Mollusca
	Class	Gastropoda
	Subclass	Heterobranchia
	Infraclass	Euthyneura
	Subterclass	Ringipleura
	Superorder	Nudipleura
	Order	Nudibranchia
	Suborder	Doridina
	Infraorder	Doridoidei
	Superfamily	Polyceroidea
	Family	Polyceridae
	Subfamily	Polycerinae
	Genus	Polycera
	Species	Polycera faeroensis Lemche, 1929

	Classification according to Bouchet et al. (2017) Taxonomic source: World Register of Marine Species (AphiaID: 140834).

Description

Biology

Etymology

Polycera. From Greek “polys”, many + “keras”, horns.
Faeroensis. From the Feroe Islands (Denmark).

Distribution

Known georeferenced records of the species: Polycera faeroensis
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: Polycera faeroensis

Cantabria: Martínez et al. (1990). Galicia: Ortea and Urgorri (1981a), Urgorri and Besteiro (1983, 1984). Portugal: Calado et al. (1999, 2003), Wirtz and Debelius (2003). Gibraltar: García-Gómez (1983), García-Gómez et al. (1989), Megina and Cervera (2003). Andalucía (Med.): Sánchez Tocino, Ocaña and García (2000a), Ocaña et al. (2000).

General: Brown & Picton, 1979:14; Hayward, Wigham, & Yonow, 1990:716; Hunnam & Brown, 1975:147; ICZN, 1977a:35; Just & Edmunds, 1985:58[P]; Lemche, 1973:91; Lemche & Thompson, 1974:186; Odhner, 1941:3; Picton & Morrow, 1994:74[P]; Thompson, Thompson, 1976a:[P]; 1988:202[P]; Thompson & Brown, 1976:112; 1984:67[P]

Sources: Cervera et al., 2004, Ballesteros, 2007 & 2016, McDonald, 2006 and other sources.

Abundance

Western Mediterranean:
Eastern Mediterranean:
Atlantic Ocean:

More pictures

Polycera faeroensis (Atlantic)

Polycera faeroensis (Portugal) by Joao Pedro Silva

Radula de Polycera faeroensis by Luis Sánchez-Tocino

Polycera faeroensis by José Carlos García Gómez

Bibliography

Bibliography based on the works by Steve Long, 2006. Bibliography of Opisthobranchia 1554-2000 and Gary McDonald, 2009. Bibliographia Nudibranchia, with later updates from other resources.

Further reading

Cite this article as:

Ballesteros, Manuel, Enric Madrenas, Miquel Pontes (2012-2018) "Polycera faeroensis" in OPK-Opistobranquis, Published: 24/10/2012, Accessed: 16/12/2018 at (https://opistobranquis.info/en/bwvPf)

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Polycera faeroensis