original description
(of Tornatella punctocaelata P. P. Carpenter, 1864) Carpenter, P. P. (1864). Supplementary report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the West Coast of North America. <em>Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.</em> (1863) 33: 517-686., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29370651
page(s): 646 [details]
original description
(of Acteon punctocaelatus var. coronadensis Stearns, 1899 †) Stearns, R. E. C. (1899). Description of a species of <i>Actaeon</i> from the Quaternary bluffs at Spanish Bight, San Diego, California. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 21: 297–299, 1 fig., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15716288
page(s): 299 [details]
original description
(of Acteon punctocaelatus vancouverensis I. S. Oldroyd, 1927) Oldroyd, I. S. (1927). The marine shells of the west coast of North America. <em>Stanford University Publications in Geological Sciences.</em> Volume 2, part 1, pp. 1-298, 29 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58081753
page(s): 25, pl. 1 figs 19-20 [details]
basis of record
Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. <i>American Fisheries Society Special Publication</i>, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 117 [details]
basis of record
Valdés A. (2019). Northeast Pacific benthic shelled sea slugs. <em>Zoosymposia.</em> 13: 242-304., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.13.1.21
page(s): 246, figs 1A-B [details]
additional source
Behrens D.W. (2004) Pacific Coast nudibranchs, Supplement II. New species to the Pacific Coast and new information on the oldies. <i>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences</i> (4) 55(2): 11–54., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/scipubs/pdfs/v55/proccas_v55_n02.pdf [details]
additional source
Gosliner T.M. (1996). The Opisthobranchia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 2 – The Gastropoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 9: 161-213. [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution Prince of Wales Island, Alaska to Magdalena Bay, Baja California, Mexico; 0–230 m, rarely to 305 m. [details]