MolluscaBase taxon details

Lecithophorus capensis Macnae, 1958

599488  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:599488)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Heterobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Euthyneura (Infraclass)
  7. Ringipleura (Subterclass)
  8. Nudipleura (Superorder)
  9. Doridida (Order)
  10. Doridoidei (Infraorder)
  11. Polyceroidea (Superfamily)
  12. Polyceridae (Family)
  13. Polycerinae (Subfamily)
  14. Lecithophorus (Genus)
  15. Lecithophorus capensis (Species)
accepted
Species
marine
Macnae, W. (1958). The families Polyceridae and Goniodorididae (Mollusca, Nudibranchiata) in southern Afirca. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa.</em> 35(4): 341-372., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00359195809519020
page(s): 362 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Type locality contained in False Bay (South Africa)  
type locality contained in False Bay (South Africa) [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lecithophorus capensis Macnae, 1958. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=599488 on 2025-09-11
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2012-06-05 23:54:58Z
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Rosenberg, Gary

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original description Macnae, W. (1958). The families Polyceridae and Goniodorididae (Mollusca, Nudibranchiata) in southern Afirca. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa.</em> 35(4): 341-372., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00359195809519020
page(s): 362 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Gosliner, T. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
page(s): 103 [details] 

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): 252 [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

LanguageName 
English Ghost Dorid  [details]
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lecithophorus capensis) 
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 4 proteins) 
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org) 
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