MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
(of Doris preciosa Kelaart, 1858) Kelaart E.F. (1858). Description of new and little known species of Ceylon nudibranchiate molluscs, and zoophytes. <em>Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.</em> 3 (9): 84-139. [May 1858]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43940429 [details]
basis of record
Soong, G.Y., Bonomo, L.J., Reimer, J.D. & Gosliner, T.M. (2022). Battle of the bands: systematics and phylogeny of the white <i>Goniobranchus</i> nudibranchs with marginal bands (Nudibranchia, Chromodorididae). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1083: 169-210., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1083.72939
page(s): 181, figs 2c–f, 5c, d, 8a–f [details]
new combination reference
Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of
the chromodorid nudibranchs. <i>PLoS ONE</i> 7(4): e33479., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033479 [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution Widely distributed around the tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific oceans, with specific reports from Sri Lanka, west coast of India and the Andaman Islands, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, and Japan. Records cited by Gosliner et al. (2008) from New Caledonia, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, and Australia are of Goniobranchus fabulus, not G. preciosus. [details]