WoRMS name details
Hexabranchus digitatus Eliot, 1906
549824 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:549824)
uncertain > nomen dubium
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Eliot, C. N. E. (1906). Nudibranchiata, with some remarks on the families and genera and description of a new genus, <i>Doridomorpha</i>, pp. 540-573, pl. 32. <em>In: J. Stanley Gardiner (Ed.) The fauna and geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of the work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900.</em> vol. 2, pt. 1., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11165304 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Hexabranchus digitatus Eliot, 1906. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=549824 on 2025-05-13
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Nomenclature
original description
Eliot, C. N. E. (1906). Nudibranchiata, with some remarks on the families and genera and description of a new genus, <i>Doridomorpha</i>, pp. 540-573, pl. 32. <em>In: J. Stanley Gardiner (Ed.) The fauna and geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of the work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900.</em> vol. 2, pt. 1., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11165304 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Thompson, T. E. (1972). Observations on <i>Hexabranchus</i> from the Australian Great Barrier Reef. <em>The Veliger.</em> 15(1): 1-5. [details]
status source Tibiriçá, Y.; Pola, M.; Pittman, C.; Gosliner, T. M.; Malaquias, M. A.; Cervera, J. L. (2023). A Spanish dancer? No! A troupe of dancers: a review of the family Hexabranchidae Bergh, 1891 (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Nudibranchia). <em>Organisms Diversity & Evolution.</em> 23: 697-742., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-023-00611-0 [details] Available for editors
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status source Tibiriçá, Y.; Pola, M.; Pittman, C.; Gosliner, T. M.; Malaquias, M. A.; Cervera, J. L. (2023). A Spanish dancer? No! A troupe of dancers: a review of the family Hexabranchidae Bergh, 1891 (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Nudibranchia). <em>Organisms Diversity & Evolution.</em> 23: 697-742., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-023-00611-0 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
