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Glaucus atlanticus<\/em> Forster, 1777<\/h3>\n

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Glaucus atlanticus @ Boynton Beach, Florida, USA 28-01-2018<\/em> by Ariane Dimitris<\/center><\/span>

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WoRMS Taxonomic Information<\/h3>
Current accepted name: Glaucus atlanticus<\/em> Forster, 1777<\/strong><\/div>

Current classification<\/h4>
Superdomain<\/th>Biota<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Kingdom<\/th>Animalia<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Phylum<\/th>Mollusca<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Class<\/th>Gastropoda<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Subclass<\/th>Heterobranchia<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Infraclass<\/th>Euthyneura<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Subterclass<\/th>Ringipleura<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Superorder<\/th>Nudipleura<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Order<\/th>Nudibranchia<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Suborder<\/th>Aeolidina<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Superfamily<\/th>Aeolidioidea<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Family<\/th>Glaucidae<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Genus<\/th>Glaucus<\/em><\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Species<\/th>Glaucus atlanticus<\/em> Forster, 1777<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>

Classification provided by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). [140022<\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Taxonomic note<\/strong>: The genus <\/span>Glaucus<\/em> was established in 1777 by the British naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster. He described the genus based on a number of specimens\u00a0of <\/span>Glaucus atlanticus<\/em> collected during the second voyage of James Cook aboard the HMS Resolution. In 1848, the German naturalist Johannes Gistel proposed the name <\/span>Dadone<\/em> to <\/span>Glaucus<\/em>, but it later deemed unnecessary and today it is considered invalid. Traditionally it was considered that the genus <\/span>Glaucus<\/em>\u00a0had only two species <\/span>Glaucus atlanticus<\/em>\u00a0and <\/span>Glaucus marginatus<\/em>, but in the work of Churchill et al. (2014) an anatomical and molecular study of different species of the genus <\/span>Glaucus<\/em> -unexpectedly- revealed the presence of a species complex. <\/span>Glaucus Atlanticus<\/em> was the only species found in the Atlantic Ocean, although it is also present throughout the Indo-Pacific, but under the name of <\/span>Glaucus marginatus<\/em> four separate species (referred to informally as the clade ‘marginatus’) were discovered. There are three species (<\/span>Glaucus marginatus, Glaucus thompsoni<\/em> and <\/span>Glaucus mcfarlanei<\/em>) cited in the North Pacific Gyre while there is a single species (<\/span>Glaucus marginatus<\/em>) cited in the South Pacific Gyre and the Indian Ocean. In addition, in the South Pacific there is another species <\/span>Glaucus bennettae<\/em>. Specimens\u00a0of <\/span>Glaucus atlanticus<\/em> show some genetic differences in their different areas of distribution, but they are small, so it is considered to be a single species.<\/span><\/p>\n

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