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Eubranchus Forbes, 1838

137954  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137954)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Heterobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Euthyneura (Infraclass)
  7. Ringipleura (Subterclass)
  8. Nudipleura (Superorder)
  9. Nudibranchia (Order)
  10. Aeolidina (Suborder)
  11. Fionoidea (Superfamily)
  12. Eubranchidae (Family)
  13. Eubranchus (Genus)
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  1. Species Eubranchus agrius Er. Marcus, 1959
  2. Species Eubranchus arci Ortea, 1981
  3. Species Eubranchus arnaudi Vicente, 1974
  4. Species Eubranchus capellinii (Trinchese, 1879)
  5. Species Eubranchus conicla (Er. Marcus, 1958)
  6. Species Eubranchus convenientis Ortea & Caballer, 2002
  7. Species Eubranchus cucullus Behrens, 1985
  8. Species Eubranchus echizenicus Baba, 1975
  9. Species Eubranchus eibesfeldti Ortea, Caballer & Bacallado, 2003
  10. Species Eubranchus falklandicus (Eliot, 1907)
  11. Species Eubranchus flexus Grishina, Antokhina & Ekimova, 2023
  12. Species Eubranchus fuegiensis Odhner, 1926
  13. Species Eubranchus inabai Baba, 1964
  14. Species Eubranchus indicus (K. P. Rao, 1968)
  15. Species Eubranchus leopoldoi Caballer, Ortea & Espinosa, 2001
  16. Species Eubranchus mannarensis K. P. Rao, 1968
  17. Species Eubranchus mimeticus Baba, 1975
  18. Species Eubranchus montraveli Risbec, 1937
  19. Species Eubranchus occidentalis MacFarland, 1966
  20. Species Eubranchus ocellatus (Alder & Hancock, 1864)
  21. Species Eubranchus productus (Farran, 1905)
  22. Species Eubranchus rubeolus Burn, 1964
  23. Species Eubranchus rubrocerata Edmunds, 2015
  24. Species Eubranchus rustyus (Er. Marcus, 1961)
  25. Species Eubranchus tanzanensis Edmunds, 1969
  26. Species Eubranchus telesforoi Ortea, Caballer & Bacallado, 2002
  27. Species Eubranchus toledanoi Ortea & Caballer, 2002
  28. Species Eubranchus tricolor Forbes, 1838
  29. Species Eubranchus vascoi Ortea, Caballer & Moro, 2002
  30. Species Eubranchus yolandae Hermosillo & Á. Valdés, 2007
  31. Species Eubranchus adarensis Odhner, 1934 accepted as Galvinella adarensis (Odhner, 1934) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  32. Species Eubranchus alexeii (Martynov, 1998) accepted as Aenigmastyletus alexeii Martynov, 1998 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  33. Species Eubranchus amazighi Tamsouri, Carmona, Moukrim & Cervera, 2015 accepted as Amphorina amazighi (Tamsouri, Carmona, Moukrim & Cervera, 2015) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  34. Species Eubranchus cingulatus (Alder & Hancock, 1847) accepted as Eubranchus vittatus (Alder & Hancock, 1842) accepted as Capellinia vittata (Alder & Hancock, 1842)
  35. Species Eubranchus coniclus (Er. Marcus, 1958) accepted as Eubranchus conicla (Er. Marcus, 1958) (misspelling)
  36. Species Eubranchus doriae (Trinchese, 1874) accepted as Capellinia doriae Trinchese, 1874
  37. Species Eubranchus exiguus (Alder & Hancock, 1848) accepted as Nudibranchus exiguus (Alder & Hancock, 1848) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  38. Species Eubranchus farrani (Alder & Hancock, 1844) accepted as Amphorina farrani (Alder & Hancock, 1844) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  39. Species Eubranchus fidenciae Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1999 accepted as Cuthona fidenciae (Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1999)
  40. Species Eubranchus glacialis (Thiele, 1912) accepted as Galvinella glacialis Thiele, 1912 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  41. Species Eubranchus horii Baba, 1960 accepted as Nihonbranchus horii (Baba, 1960) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  42. Species Eubranchus linensis García-Gómez, Cervera & F. J. García, 1990 accepted as Amphorina linensis (García-Gómez, Cervera & F. J. Garcia, 1990) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  43. Species Eubranchus malakhovi Ekimova, Mikhlina, Vorobyeva, Antokhina, Tambovtseva & Shepetov, 2021 accepted as Corruptobranchus malakhovi (Ekimova, Mikhlina, Vorobyeva, Antokhina, Tambovtseva & Shepetov, 2021) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  44. Species Eubranchus mandapamensis (K. P. Rao, 1968) accepted as Annulorhina mandapamensis K. P. Rao, 1968 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  45. Species Eubranchus misakiensis Baba, 1960 accepted as Leostyletus misakiensis (Baba, 1960) (original combination)
  46. Species Eubranchus novik Grishina, Schepetov, Antokhina, Malaquias, Valdés & Ekimova, 2024 accepted as Eubranchulus novik (Grishina, Schepetov, Antokhina, Malaquias, Valdés & Ekimova, 2024) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  47. Species Eubranchus odhneri (Derjugin & Gurjanova, 1926) accepted as Corruptobranchus odhneri (Derjugin & Gurjanova, 1926) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  48. Species Eubranchus olivaceus (O'Donoghue, 1922) accepted as Eubranchulus olivaceus (O'Donoghue, 1922) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  49. Species Eubranchus pallidus (Alder & Hancock, 1842) accepted as Amphorina pallida (Alder & Hancock, 1842) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  50. Species Eubranchus prietoi Llera & Ortea, 1981 accepted as Capellinia prietoi (Llera & Ortea, 1981) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  51. Species Eubranchus putnami Fernández-Simón & Moles, 2023 accepted as Longibranchus putnami (Fernández-Simón & Moles, 2023) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  52. Species Eubranchus rubropunctatus Edmunds, 1969 accepted as Produnga rubropunctata (Edmunds, 1969) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  53. Species Eubranchus rupium (Møller, 1842) accepted as Eubranchulus rupium (Møller, 1842) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  54. Species Eubranchus sanjuanensis Roller, 1972 accepted as Corruptobranchus sanjuanensis (Roller, 1972) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  55. Species Eubranchus scintillans Grishina, Schepetov & Ekimova, 2022 accepted as Nudibranchus scintillans (Grishina, Schepetov & Ekimova, 2022) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  56. Species Eubranchus steinbecki Behrens, 1987 accepted as Capellinia steinbecki (Behrens, 1987) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  57. Species Eubranchus virginalis (Baba, 1949) accepted as Eubranchopsis virginalis Baba, 1949 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  58. Species Eubranchus viriola (Korshunova, Malmberg, Prkić, Petani, Fletcher, Lundin & Martynov, 2020) accepted as Amphorina viriola Korshunova, Malmberg, Prkić, Petani, Fletcher, Lundin & Martynov, 2020 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  59. Species Eubranchus vittatus (Alder & Hancock, 1842) accepted as Capellinia vittata (Alder & Hancock, 1842) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Forbes, E. (1838). Malacologia Monensis: a catalogue of the Mollusca inhabiting the Isle of Man and the neighbouring sea. Edinburgh: J. Carfrae and son pp. XII + 63 + 3 pl., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k99078x
page(s): 5, fig. 1 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Eubranchus Forbes, 1838. Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137954 on 2026-02-01
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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Gofas, Serge
2012-05-12 13:39:37Z
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Bouchet, Philippe
2013-05-02 07:56:13Z
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Caballer, Manuel
2015-04-15 21:08:40Z
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Gofas, Serge
2016-12-21 01:50:36Z
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Bouchet, Philippe
2016-12-21 11:51:09Z
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Bouchet, Philippe
2017-09-28 13:49:48Z
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Picton, Bernard

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original description Forbes, E. (1838). Malacologia Monensis: a catalogue of the Mollusca inhabiting the Isle of Man and the neighbouring sea. Edinburgh: J. Carfrae and son pp. XII + 63 + 3 pl., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k99078x
page(s): 5, fig. 1 [details] 

original description (of Egalvina Odhner, 1929) Odhner N.H. (1929). Aeolidiiden aus dem nördlichen Norwegen. <i>Tromsø Museums Aarshefter 1927, 50</i>: 1-22
page(s): 11 [details] 

additional source Edmunds, M. & Kress, A. (1969). On the European species of <i>Eubranchus</i> (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 49(4): 879-912.
page(s): 879-912 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Ortea J. & Caballer M. 2002. Nuevos datos sobre el género <i>Eubranchus</i> Forbes, 1838 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) en aguas templadas del Atlántico Oeste. New data about the genus <i>Eubranchus</i> Forbes, 1838 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) in warm waters of West Atlantic. <i>Avicennia</i> 15: 77-90
page(s): 78-81 [details] 

additional source Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Picton, B. (2017). Ontogeny as an important part of integrative taxonomy in tergipedid aeolidaceans (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with a description of a new genus and species from the Barents Sea. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4324 (1): 1–22., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4324.1.1 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Korshunova, T.; Fletcher, K.; Martynov, A. (2025). The endless forms are the most differentiated — how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 204(4): zlaf057: 1-93., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf057
page(s): 29; note: Restricted to only the type species E. tricolor Forbes, 1838, whereas all other 'Eubranchus' species are pending reallocation [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

status source ICZN. (1966). Opinion 774. <i>Eubranchus</i> Forbes, 1838 added to the Official List with suppression under the Plenary Powers of several nomina dubia. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 23(1): 87-90., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12222892 [details] 
 
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Authority The name Eubranchus has been placed on the Official List by ICZN Opinion 774. [details]
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