MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Limax marinus Forsskål, 1775

ERMS name details

Limax marinus Forsskål, 1775

AphiaID

749087 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:749087)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (dubious synonym)

Accepted name

Fiona pinnata (Eschscholtz, 1831)

Rank

Species

Parent

Limax Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Limax marinus Forsskål, 1775

Environment

marine

Original description

Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 99 [details]

Type data

Note Mediterranean Sea, on floating wood

Type locality Mediterranean Sea, on floating wood [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Limax marinus Forsskål, 1775. 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=749087 on 2026-05-20

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Limax marinus Forsskål, 1775. Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=749087 on 2026-05-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2014-01-30 12:11:24Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2015-11-03 18:04:52Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2022-06-11 20:33:29Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

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original description Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 99 [details]

source of synonymy Thompson, T. E.; Brown, G. H. (1976). <i>British opisthobranch molluscs: Mollusca: Gastropoda: keys and notes for the identification of the species</i>. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 8. Academic Press: London, UK. 203 pp. (look up in RoR)
page(s): 193 [details]

From editor or global species database

Type locality Mediterranean Sea, on floating wood [details]

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