WoRMS taxon details
Pleurobranchus peronii Cuvier, 1804
599477 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:599477)
accepted
Species
Oscaniella purpurea Bergh, 1897 · unaccepted
Pleurobranchus (Pleurobranchus) peronii Cuvier, 1804 · unaccepted
Pleurobranchus cornutus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pleurobranchus giardi Vayssière, 1897 · unaccepted
Pleurobranchus hirasei Baba, 1971 · unaccepted
Pleurobranchus inhacae Macnae, 1962 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Pleurobranchus inhancae [sic] · unaccepted (misspelling)
Pleurobranchus ovalis Pease, 1868 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pleurobranchus papillatus Risbec, 1951 · unaccepted
Pleurobranchus winckworthi K. White, 1946 · unaccepted
Pleurobranchus xhosa Macnae, 1962 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Cuvier G. (1804). Mémoire sur la phyllidie et le pleurobranche. <em>Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 5: 266-276, pl. 18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48531444
page(s): 275, figs 1-6 [details]
page(s): 275, figs 1-6 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pleurobranchus peronii Cuvier, 1804. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=599477 on 2025-04-01
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Nomenclature
original description
Cuvier G. (1804). Mémoire sur la phyllidie et le pleurobranche. <em>Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 5: 266-276, pl. 18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48531444
page(s): 275, figs 1-6 [details]
original description (of Pleurobranchus inhacae Macnae, 1962) Macnae, W. (1962). Notaspidean opisthobranchiate molluscs from southern Africa. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 15(15): 167–181.
page(s): 174, text-fig. 5. [details]
original description (of Oscaniella purpurea Bergh, 1897) Bergh, L. S. R. (1897-1898). Die Pleurobranchiden. In: <i>Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen von Dr. Carl Gottfried Semper</i>, Zweiter Theil: Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Band 7, <i>Malacologische Untersuchungen</i>, Theil 1-3: 1-116, pls 1-8 [1897]; 117-158, pls 9-12 [1898]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14453980 [details]
original description (of Pleurobranchus xhosa Macnae, 1962) Macnae, W. (1962). Notaspidean opisthobranchiate molluscs from southern Africa. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 15(15): 167–181.
page(s): 176, text-fig. 6. [details]
original description (of Pleurobranchus cornutus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1832-1835). <i>Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie.</i> 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832]; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; 4 [1833]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833] ...etc. In: Dumont d'Urville, J.; 1834, Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Paris, J. Tastu, Éditeur-Imprimeur., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2132
page(s): 298, pl. 22, figs 20-24 [details]
original description (of Pleurobranchus ovalis Pease, 1868) Pease, W. H. (1868). Descriptions of marine Gasteropodæ inhabiting Polynesia. <em>American Journal of Conchology.</em> 4(2): 71-80, pls 8-9 [1 October 1868]; 4(3): 91-102, pls 11,12 [3 November 1868]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16070178
page(s): 79 [details]
original description (of Pleurobranchus giardi Vayssière, 1897) Vayssière, A. (1897 [1896]). Description de deux espèces nouvelles de Pleurobranchidés. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 44(3): 353-356., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25124933
page(s): 354-356 [details]
original description (of Pleurobranchus winckworthi K. White, 1946) White, K. M. (1946). On three new species of Pleurobranchidae from Karachi. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 27(1): 52–56., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a064497
page(s): 52 [details] Available for editors
[request]
original description (of Pleurobranchus papillatus Risbec, 1951) Risbec, J. (1951). Note sur les Tectibranches de Nouvelle-Calédonie. <em>Journal de la Société des Océanistes.</em> 7: 123-158.
page(s): 156 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Pleurobranchus hirasei Baba, 1971) Baba, K. (1971). <i>Pleurobranchus hirasei</i> n. sp., Proposed for a Mollusc Formerly Known as <i>Oscanius testudinarius</i>: HIRASE 1927, from Japan (Opisthobranchia : Notaspidea). <em>Venus.</em> vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 23-29, pl. 3. [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Goodheart J., Camacho-García Y., Padula V., Schrödl M., Cervera J.L., Gosliner T.M. & Valdés Á. (2015). Systematics and biogeography of <i>Pleurobranchus</i> Cuvier, 1804, sea slugs (Heterobranchia: Nudipleura: Pleurobranchidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 174: 322-362., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12237 [details]
page(s): 275, figs 1-6 [details]
original description (of Pleurobranchus inhacae Macnae, 1962) Macnae, W. (1962). Notaspidean opisthobranchiate molluscs from southern Africa. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 15(15): 167–181.
page(s): 174, text-fig. 5. [details]
original description (of Oscaniella purpurea Bergh, 1897) Bergh, L. S. R. (1897-1898). Die Pleurobranchiden. In: <i>Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen von Dr. Carl Gottfried Semper</i>, Zweiter Theil: Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Band 7, <i>Malacologische Untersuchungen</i>, Theil 1-3: 1-116, pls 1-8 [1897]; 117-158, pls 9-12 [1898]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14453980 [details]
original description (of Pleurobranchus xhosa Macnae, 1962) Macnae, W. (1962). Notaspidean opisthobranchiate molluscs from southern Africa. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 15(15): 167–181.
page(s): 176, text-fig. 6. [details]
original description (of Pleurobranchus cornutus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1832-1835). <i>Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie.</i> 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832]; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; 4 [1833]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833] ...etc. In: Dumont d'Urville, J.; 1834, Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Paris, J. Tastu, Éditeur-Imprimeur., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2132
page(s): 298, pl. 22, figs 20-24 [details]
original description (of Pleurobranchus ovalis Pease, 1868) Pease, W. H. (1868). Descriptions of marine Gasteropodæ inhabiting Polynesia. <em>American Journal of Conchology.</em> 4(2): 71-80, pls 8-9 [1 October 1868]; 4(3): 91-102, pls 11,12 [3 November 1868]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16070178
page(s): 79 [details]
original description (of Pleurobranchus giardi Vayssière, 1897) Vayssière, A. (1897 [1896]). Description de deux espèces nouvelles de Pleurobranchidés. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 44(3): 353-356., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25124933
page(s): 354-356 [details]
original description (of Pleurobranchus winckworthi K. White, 1946) White, K. M. (1946). On three new species of Pleurobranchidae from Karachi. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 27(1): 52–56., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a064497
page(s): 52 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Pleurobranchus papillatus Risbec, 1951) Risbec, J. (1951). Note sur les Tectibranches de Nouvelle-Calédonie. <em>Journal de la Société des Océanistes.</em> 7: 123-158.
page(s): 156 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Pleurobranchus hirasei Baba, 1971) Baba, K. (1971). <i>Pleurobranchus hirasei</i> n. sp., Proposed for a Mollusc Formerly Known as <i>Oscanius testudinarius</i>: HIRASE 1927, from Japan (Opisthobranchia : Notaspidea). <em>Venus.</em> vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 23-29, pl. 3. [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Goodheart J., Camacho-García Y., Padula V., Schrödl M., Cervera J.L., Gosliner T.M. & Valdés Á. (2015). Systematics and biogeography of <i>Pleurobranchus</i> Cuvier, 1804, sea slugs (Heterobranchia: Nudipleura: Pleurobranchidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 174: 322-362., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12237 [details]
Other
additional source
Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). <i>Southern African Sea Slugs</i>. Southern Underwater Research Group Press, 7 Blackwood Drive, Hout Bay 7806, Cape Town, South Africa.
page(s): 74 [details]
additional source Gosliner, T. M.; Behrens, D. W.; Valdés, Á. (2008). Indo-Pacific Nudibranchs and seaslugs. A field guide to the world's most diverse fauna. <em>Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Washington.</em> 426, pp. [details]
additional source Gosliner, T. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
page(s): 59.; note: As P. peroni. [details]
page(s): 74 [details]
additional source Gosliner, T. M.; Behrens, D. W.; Valdés, Á. (2008). Indo-Pacific Nudibranchs and seaslugs. A field guide to the world's most diverse fauna. <em>Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Washington.</em> 426, pp. [details]
additional source Gosliner, T. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
page(s): 59.; note: As P. peroni. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Pleurobranchus inhacae Macnae, 1962)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pleurobranchus peronii)
To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 17 proteins)
To MNHN Type collection (IM 2000-30103) (from synonym Pleurobranchus giardi Vayssière, 1897)
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Pleurobranchus inhacae Macnae, 1962)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pleurobranchus peronii)
To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 17 proteins)
To MNHN Type collection (IM 2000-30103) (from synonym Pleurobranchus giardi Vayssière, 1897)
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org)
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally, from synonym
