MolluscaBase - Glaucus Forster, 1777

WoRMS taxon details

Glaucus Forster, 1777

Glaucus atlanticus

AphiaID

138033 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138033)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Glaucus atlanticus Forster, 1777 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Glaucidae Gray, 1827

Original name

Glaucus Forster, 1777

Synonymised names

Dadone Gistel, 1848 · unaccepted (unnecessary substitute name for...)

unnecessary substitute name for Glaucus Forster, 1777

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Species Glaucus atlanticus Forster, 1777
Species Glaucus bennettae Churchill, Á. Valdés & Ó Foighil, 2014 accepted as Glaucilla bennettae (Churchill, Á. Valdés & Ó Foighil, 2014)
Species Glaucus distichoicus A. d'Orbigny, 1836 accepted as Glaucus atlanticus Forster, 1777
Species Glaucus flagellum Blumenbach, 1803 accepted as Glaucus atlanticus Forster, 1777 (synonym)
Species Glaucus hexapterigius Cuvier, 1805 accepted as Glaucus atlanticus Forster, 1777 (synonym)
Species Glaucus lineatus Reinhardt & Bergh, 1861 accepted as Glaucus atlanticus Forster, 1777 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
Species Glaucus lineatus Reinhardt & Bergh, 1864 accepted as Glaucus atlanticus Forster, 1777
Species Glaucus longicirrhus Reinhardt & Bergh, 1861 accepted as Glaucus atlanticus Forster, 1777 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
Species Glaucus longicirrhus Reinhardt & Bergh, 1864 accepted as Glaucus atlanticus Forster, 1777
Species Glaucus marginatus (Reinhardt & Bergh, 1864) accepted as Glaucilla marginata Reinhardt & Bergh, 1864
Species Glaucus mcfarlanei Churchill, Á. Valdés & Ó Foighil, 2014 accepted as Glaucilla mcfarlanei (Churchill, Á. Valdés & Ó Foighil, 2014)
Species Glaucus thompsoni Churchill, Á. Valdés & Ó Foighil, 2014 accepted as Glaucilla thompsoni (Churchill, Á. Valdés & Ó Foighil, 2014)
Species Glaucus forsteri Lamarck, 1819 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)

Environment

marine

Original description

Forster G. 1777. A voyage round the world in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop, Resolution, commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the years 1772, 3, 4 and 5. London, B. White, J. Robson, P. Elmsly and and G. Robinson. Vol. 1, pp. i-xviii, 1-602; vol. 2, pp. 1-607. , available online at http://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:doc-IFSE4BLP [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Glaucus Forster, 1777. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138033 on 2024-11-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Gofas, Serge

2012-08-20 09:03:32Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2020-01-27 18:41:41Z

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Marshall, Bruce

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original description Forster G. 1777. A voyage round the world in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop, Resolution, commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the years 1772, 3, 4 and 5. London, B. White, J. Robson, P. Elmsly and and G. Robinson. Vol. 1, pp. i-xviii, 1-602; vol. 2, pp. 1-607. , available online at http://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:doc-IFSE4BLP [details]

taxonomy source Churchill C.K.C., Valdés Á. & Ó Foighil D. (2014). Molecular and morphological systematics of neustonic nudibranchs (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Glaucidae : Glaucus), with descriptions of three new cryptic species. Invertebrate Systematics. 28: 174–195., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS13038 [details]

taxonomy source Martynov, A.; Mehrotra, R.; Chavanich, S.; Nakano, R.; Kashio, S.; Lundin, K.; Picton, B.; Korshunova, T. (2019). The extraordinary genus Myja is not a tergipedid, but related to the Facelinidae s. str. with the addition of two new species from Japan (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). ZooKeys. 818: 89-116., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.818.30477 [details]

context source (PeRMS) Ramírez, R.; Paredes, C.; Arenas, J. (2003). Moluscos del Perú. Revista de Biologia Tropical. 51(supplement 3): 225-284. [details] Available for editors

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basis of record Valdés A. & Campillo O.A. (2004) Systematics of pelagic aeolid nudibranchs of the family Glaucidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bulletin of Marine Science 75(3): 381–389., available online at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/2004/00000075/00000003/art00003 [details]