MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Embletonia pulchra (Alder & Hancock, 1844)

ERMS taxon details

Embletonia pulchra (Alder & Hancock, 1844)

AphiaID

141638 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141638)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Embletonia Alder & Hancock, 1851

Original name

Pterochilus pulcher Alder & Hancock, 1844

Synonymised names

Embletonia faurei Labbé, 1923 · unaccepted (synonym)

Pterochilus pulcher Alder & Hancock, 1844 · unaccepted (original combination)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Pterochilus pulcher Alder & Hancock, 1844) Alder, J.; Hancock, A. (1844). Descriptions of Pterochilus, a new genus of nudibranchiate Mollusca, and two new species of Doris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 14: 329-331., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2331606 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Embletonia pulchra (Alder & Hancock, 1844). 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=141638 on 2026-06-29

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Embletonia pulchra (Alder & Hancock, 1844). Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141638 on 2026-06-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

Licensing

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original description (of Embletonia faurei Labbé, 1923) Labbé A (1923). Description sommaire de cinq espèces d'Eolidiens trouvées à la station du Croisic. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France , 48(4-5): 265-268., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5443764b/f304
page(s): 267 [details]

original description (of Pterochilus pulcher Alder & Hancock, 1844) Alder, J.; Hancock, A. (1844). Descriptions of Pterochilus, a new genus of nudibranchiate Mollusca, and two new species of Doris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 14: 329-331., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2331606 [details]

context source (HKRMS) Jensen KR. (1998). Zoogeographic affinities of Hong Kong Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda). In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Marine Biology of the South China Sea, The Marine Biology of the South China Sea.Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. pp 43-55. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9789882202153-009 [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 Edmunds, M. (2015). Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Ghana: Flabellinidae, Piseinotecidae, Eubranchidae & Embletoniidae. Journal of Conchology. 42(2): 105-124. [details]

additional source Fernández-Simón, J.; Salvador, X.; Moles, J. (2025). Digging in the sand: new species and records of mesopsammic sea slugs in the Western Mediterranean (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Journal of Natural History. 59(5-8): 411-454., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2439056
page(s): 422-423, fig. 2i [details] Available for editors