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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Bibliography
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Costa, A. (1866). Saggio sui molluschi eolididei del Golfo di Napoli. Annuario del Museo Zoologico della Reale Università di Napoli, (1863) 3: 59-90, pl. 1-3 [1866]; (1864) 4: 26-37, pl. 1-2 [1867]; (1865) 5: 46-53, pl. 2 [1869].
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Gascoigne, T. (1979). A Re Description Of Caliphylla mediterranea Opisthobranchia Ascoglossa. J Molluscan Stud 45 (3). 1979. 300-311.
Gascoigne, T. (1979). REDESCRIPTION OF CALIPHYLLA-MEDITERRANEA COSTA, 1867 (OPISTHOBRANCHIA, ASCOGLOSSA). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 45(DEC), 300–311. Retrieved from ://WOS:A1979JA03200006
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Moro, L., Wirtz, P., Ortea, J., & Cabrera, A. (2000). Cuatro nuevas especies anfiatlánticas del Orden Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia).
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.
Sánchez Tocino, L. (2001). Caliphylla mediterranea accessed through: Opistobranquios de la Costa de Granada on 2014-12-14. Retrieved from http://www.ugr.es/~lstocino/caliphylla_mediterranea.htm
Sánchez-Tocino, L. (2018). Opistobranquios. Retrieved January 3, 2019, from https://litoraldegranada.ugr.es/el-litoral/el-litoral-sumergido/fauna/moluscos/gasteropodos/opistobranquios/
Templado, J., & Villanueva, R. (2010). Checklist of Phylum Mollusca. pp. 148-198 In Coll, M., et al., 2010. The biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: estimates, patterns, and threats. PLoS ONE 5(8):36pp.
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Further reading
Cite this article as:
Ballesteros, Manuel, Enric Madrenas, Miquel Pontes (2012-2020) "Caliphylla mediterranea" in OPK-Opistobranquis, Published: 05/09/2014, Accessed: 06/04/2020 at (https://opistobranquis.info/en/SIjI2)
