Caliphylla mediterranea A. Costa, 1867
Superdomain | Biota | |
Kingdom | Animalia | |
Phylum | Mollusca | |
Class | Gastropoda | |
Subclass | Heterobranchia | |
Infraclass | Euthyneura | |
Subterclass | Tectipleura | |
Superorder | Sacoglossa | |
Superfamily | Plakobranchoidea | |
Family | Hermaeidae | |
Genus | Caliphylla | |
Species | Caliphylla mediterranea A. Costa, 1867 | |
| Classification according to Bouchet et al. (2017) Taxonomic source: World Register of Marine Species (AphiaID: 140089). | ||
- Beccaria tricolor Trinchese, 1870
Description
Biology
Etymology
- Caliphylla. From Greek “kalos”, beautiful + “phyllon”, leaf.
- Mediterranea. From Latin “médium”, middle, intermediate space, center + “terra”, land.
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: Caliphylla mediterranea
- Gibraltar: García-Gómez (2002).
Andalucía (Med.): Luque (1983, 1986), García Raso et al. (1992), Sánchez Tocino, Ocaña and García (2000a), Ocaña et al. (2000).
Levante: Templado, Talavera and Murillo (1987), Templado et al. (2002).
Canarias: Ortea (1981), 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: | |
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Further reading
Cite this article as:
Ballesteros, Manuel, Enric Madrenas, Miquel Pontes (2021) "Caliphylla mediterranea" in OPK-Opistobranquis. Published: 05/09/2014. Accessed: 08/03/2021. Available at (https://opistobranquis.info/en/SIjI2)
