MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Aplysia parvula Mörch, 1863

ERMS taxon details

Aplysia parvula Mörch, 1863

To ANSP Malacology Collection in GBIF (catalog no. 20686)

AphiaID

138757 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138757)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) Engel, 1936

Parent

Aplysia Linnaeus, 1767

Original name

Aplysia parvula Mörch, 1863

Synonymised names

Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) parvula Mörch, 1863 · alternative representation

Aplysia australiana Clessin, 1899 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Environment

marine

Original description

Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1863). Contributions à la faune malacologique des Antilles danoises. Journal de Conchyliologie. 11(1): 21-43., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15338052
page(s): 22-23 [details]

Type data

Note St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles

From editor or global species database

Type locality St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles [details]

Descriptive notes

Nomenclature ICZN opinion 560: validated under the plenary powers

Nomenclature ICZN opinion 560: validated under the plenary powers [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Aplysia parvula Mörch, 1863. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138757 on 2026-01-15

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Aplysia parvula Mörch, 1863. Accessed at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php/js/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138757 on 2026-01-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2011-10-03 20:55:38Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

Licensing

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original description Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1863). Contributions à la faune malacologique des Antilles danoises. Journal de Conchyliologie. 11(1): 21-43., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15338052
page(s): 22-23 [details]

original description (of Aplysia australiana Clessin, 1899) Clessin, S. (1853-1899). Die Familie Aplysiidae. In: Küster, H. C.; Kobelt, W., Eds. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Neu herausgegeben und vervollständigt. 1 (8): 1-58, pls 1-14. Nürnberg: Bauer & Raspe [publication dates: pl. 1 [1853], 1-16, pls 2-7 [1898], 17-58, pls 8-14 [1899]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34331061
page(s): 22, pl. 8, figs 8-9 [details]

context source (Bermuda) Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp [details]

additional source Valdés A. (2019). Northeast Pacific benthic shelled sea slugs. Zoosymposia. 13: 242-304., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.13.1.21
page(s): 258, figs 6E, 7E [details]

additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]

additional source Gosliner, T. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
page(s): 46. [details]

additional source Branch, G. M. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg. , available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details]

additional source Bebbington, A., 1977. Aplysiid species from eastern Australia with notes on the Pacific Ocean Aplysiomorpha (Gastropoda, Opistobranchia). Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 34 1: 87-147. [details]

additional source Nimbs M. J., Willan R. C. & Smith S. D. A. (2017). Is Port Stephens, eastern Australia, a global hotspot for biodiversity of Aplysiidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia)?. Molluscan Research. 37(1): 47-65., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13235818.2016.1207280 [details]

redescription Thompson, T. E. (1977). Jamaican opisthobranch molluscs I. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 43: 93-140. [details] Available for editors

status source ICZN. (1959). Opinion 560. Protection under the Plenary Powers of the specific name "parvula" Mörch, 1863, as published in the combination "Aplysia parvula" (Class Gastropoda). Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 20 (27): 293-302., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34655554 [details]

status source Golestani, H.; Crocetta, F.; Padula, V.; Camacho, Y.; Langeneck, J.; Poursanidis, D.; Pola, M.; Yokeş, M. B.; Cervera, J. L.; Jung, D.-W.; Gosliner, T. M.; Araya, J. F.; Hooker, J.; Schrödl, M.; Valdés, Á. (2019). The little Aplysia is coming of age: from one species to a complex of species complexes in Aplysia parvula (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 187(2): 279-330. [details] Available for editors