WoRMS name details
Pleurobranchus emys Ev. Marcus, 1984
533311 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:533311)
unaccepted
Species
marine
Marcus, Ev. (1984). The western Atlantic warm water Notaspidea (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia). Parte 2. <em>Boletim de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo.</em> 8: 43-76., available online at https://www.revistas.usp.br/bolzoo/article/download/122161/118905/228517 [details] Available for editors
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Type locality contained in Santa Marta
type locality contained in Santa Marta [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pleurobranchus emys Ev. Marcus, 1984. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533311 on 2025-06-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Marcus, Ev. (1984). The western Atlantic warm water Notaspidea (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia). Parte 2. <em>Boletim de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo.</em> 8: 43-76., available online at https://www.revistas.usp.br/bolzoo/article/download/122161/118905/228517 [details] Available for editors
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Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Alvim J. & Pimenta A.D. (2016). Comparative morphology and redescription of <i>Pleurobranchus</i> species (Gastropoda, Pleurobranchoidea) from Brazil. <em>Zoological Studies.</em> 55: 15., available online at https://doi.org/10.6620/ZS.2016.55-15 [details]
Other
context source (Bermuda)
Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp [details]





From editor or global species database
Synonymy Goodheart et al. (2015) considered this a synonym of Pleurobranchus areolatus (Mörch, 1863) [details]