Aplysiopsis elegans

Aplysiopsis elegans Deshayes, 1853

Aplysiopsis-elegans @ Qajjenza, Malta on beached red algae 15-09-1993 by Carmel Sammut by Carmel Sammut

Taxonomy

	Superdomain	Biota
	Kingdom	Animalia
	Phylum	Mollusca
	Class	Gastropoda
	Subclass	Heterobranchia
	Infraclass	Euthyneura
	Subterclass	Tectipleura
	Superorder	Sacoglossa
	Superfamily	Plakobranchoidea
	Family	Hermaeidae
	Genus	Aplysiopsis
	Species	Aplysiopsis elegans Deshayes, 1853

	Classification according to Bouchet et al. (2017) Taxonomic source: World Register of Marine Species (AphiaID: 140087).

Synonyms

Hermaeina maculosa Trinchese, 1874

Description

Biology

Etymology

Aplysiopsis. From Greek “aplysia” dirty, sponge + “opsis”, looks like. That looks like dirty.
Elegans. From Latin “elegans”, delicious, ornate, prodigious.

Distribution

Known georeferenced records of the species: Aplysiopsis elegans
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: Aplysiopsis elegans

Baleares: Ballesteros and Templado (1996). Canarias: Ortea et al. (1998, 2001), Moro et al. (2003).

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

Abundance

Western Mediterranean:
Eastern Mediterranean:
Atlantic Ocean:

More pictures

Aplysiopsis-elegans detail of head @ Birzebbugia, Malta 1m 06-03-1995 by Carmel Sammut

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) "Aplysiopsis elegans" in OPK-Opistobranquis, Published: 11/09/2014, Accessed: 21/10/2018 at (https://opistobranquis.info/en/F3ZZE)

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