MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
(of Doris variabilis Angas, 1864) Angas, G.F. (1864). Description d'espèces nouvelles appartenant à plusieurs genres de mollusques nudibranches des environs de Port-Jackson (Nouvelle-Galles du Sud), accompagnée de dessins faits d'après nature. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 12(1): 43-70., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16055237
page(s): 44-45, Plate 4, Figure 1 [details]
original description
(of Doris varia Abraham, 1877) Abraham, P. S. (1877). Revision of the anthobranchiate nudibranchiate Mollusca with descriptions or notices of forty-one hitherto undescribed species. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1877: 196-269, pl. 28-30 [August]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28510784 [details]
basis of record
Burn, R. F. (2006). A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. <em>Museum Victoria Science Reports.</em> 10:1–42., available online at http://researchdata.museum.vic.gov.au/marine/burn_2006.pdf [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality