MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828)

ERMS taxon details

Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828)

AphiaID

140037 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140037)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Okenia Menke, 1830

Original name

Idalia elegans Leuckart, 1828

Synonymised names

Euplocamus laciniosus R. A. Philippi, 1841 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Idalia cirrigera (R. A. Philippi, 1839) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Idalia dautzenbergi Vayssière, 1919 · unaccepted (synonym)

Idalia elegans Leuckart, 1828 · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Idalia elegans Leuckart, 1828) Leuckart, Friedrich Sigismund. (1828). Breves animalium quorundum maxima ex parte marinorum descriptiones. [book, perhaps thesis]. Heidelberg, Osswald, 24 pp., available online at https://www.google.com/books/edition/Breves_animalium_quorundam_maxima_ex_par/ptxlAAAAcAAJ
page(s): 15 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828). 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=140037 on 2026-08-07

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828). Accessed at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140037 on 2026-08-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

Licensing

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original description (of Euplocamus laciniosus R. A. Philippi, 1841) Philippi, [R.] A. (1841). Zoologische Bemerkungen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 7(1): 5., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9706902
page(s): 57 [details]

original description (of Idalia cirrigera (R. A. Philippi, 1839)) Philippi, R. A. (1844). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2. Halle [Halis Saxorum]: Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46936062 [details]

original description (of Idalia dautzenbergi Vayssière, 1919) Vayssière, A. (1919). Recherches zoologiques et anatomiques sur les mollusques opistobranches du Golfe de Marseille. 2e suppl. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Marseille. 17: 53-92., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11806101
page(s): 79-83 [details]

original description (of Idalia elegans Leuckart, 1828) Leuckart, Friedrich Sigismund. (1828). Breves animalium quorundum maxima ex parte marinorum descriptiones. [book, perhaps thesis]. Heidelberg, Osswald, 24 pp., available online at https://www.google.com/books/edition/Breves_animalium_quorundam_maxima_ex_par/ptxlAAAAcAAJ
page(s): 15 [details]

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in RoR), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (56 publications) (from synonym Idalia elegans Leuckart, 1828)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Okenia elegans)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To PESI (from synonym Idalia elegans Leuckart, 1828)
To PESI (from synonym Euplocamus laciniosus R. A. Philippi, 1841)
To PESI (from synonym Idalia cirrigera (R. A. Philippi, 1839))
To PESI (from synonym Idalia dautzenbergi Vayssière, 1919)
To PESI
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org)
To ITIS

From editor or global species database

Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828)