MolluscaBase name details
Pleurobranchus wirtzi Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2014
828317 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:828317)
unaccepted (probable synonym)
Species
marine
Ortea J., Moro L. & Caballer M. (2014). Contribución al estudio de la familia Pleurobranchidae Gray, 1827 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) en la Macaronesia y las islas Galápagos. <em>Vieraea.</em> 42: 117-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.31939/vieraea.2014.42.08
page(s): 125, pls 2, 3D, fig. 4 [details] Available for editors
[request]
page(s): 125, pls 2, 3D, fig. 4 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Taxonomy Ortea et al. (2014) defend that Pleurobranchus reticulatus Rang, 1832, from the islands of the Gulf of Guinea,...
Taxonomy Ortea et al. (2014) defend that Pleurobranchus reticulatus Rang, 1832, from the islands of the Gulf of Guinea, Pleurobranchus garciagomezi Cervera, Cattaneo-Vietti & Edmunds, 1996 from the Cape Verde Islands and their own Pleurobranchus wirtzi Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2014 from the Canaries, Madeira and the Azores, are different species. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pleurobranchus wirtzi Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2014. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=828317 on 2026-09-24
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
original description
Ortea J., Moro L. & Caballer M. (2014). Contribución al estudio de la familia Pleurobranchidae Gray, 1827 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) en la Macaronesia y las islas Galápagos. <em>Vieraea.</em> 42: 117-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.31939/vieraea.2014.42.08
page(s): 125, pls 2, 3D, fig. 4 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy 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 (Heterobranchus: Nudipleura: Pleurobranchidae). Addendum. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 174: 649., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12285 [details]
page(s): 125, pls 2, 3D, fig. 4 [details] Available for editors
[request]source of synonymy 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 (Heterobranchus: Nudipleura: Pleurobranchidae). Addendum. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 174: 649., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12285 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Ortea et al. (2014) defend that Pleurobranchus reticulatus Rang, 1832, from the islands of the Gulf of Guinea, Pleurobranchus garciagomezi Cervera, Cattaneo-Vietti & Edmunds, 1996 from the Cape Verde Islands and their own Pleurobranchus wirtzi Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2014 from the Canaries, Madeira and the Azores, are different species. [details]
