MolluscaBase - Akera bullata O. F. Müller, 1776

Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum: characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Typis Hallagerii, Havni, Copenhagen. 282 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 242 [details]

(of Acera bullata (O. F. Müller, 1776)) Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum: characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Typis Hallagerii, Havni, Copenhagen. 282 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 242 [details]

Descriptive notes

Nomenclature ICZN opinion 539: placed on official list, specific name of the type species of Akera Müller, 1776

Nomenclature ICZN opinion 539: placed on official list, specific name of the type species of Akera Müller, 1776 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Akera bullata O. F. Müller, 1776. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138734 on 2024-10-31

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original description Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum: characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Typis Hallagerii, Havni, Copenhagen. 282 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 242 [details]

original description (of Bulla fragilis Lamarck, 1822) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome sixième, 2me partie. Paris: published by the author, 232 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13181853
page(s): 36 [details]

original description (of Eucampe donovani Leach, 1847) Leach, W. E. (1852). Molluscorum Britanniae Synopsis. A synopsis of the Mollusca of Great Britain arranged according to their natural affinities and anatomical structure. Van Voorst, London, viii + 376 pp. (edited posthumously by J. E. Gray). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13107076 [details]

original description (of Bulla akera Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3434 [details]

original description (of Aceras elegans Locard, 1886) Locard, A. 1886. Prodrome de malacologie Française Mollusques marins. Annales de la Société d'Agriculture et d'Histoire Naturelle de Lyon, série 5, 8:1-216. [Continued in Vol. 9:1-320, 1886.]
page(s): 78; note: nomen nudum [described as Acera elegans p. 535] [details]

original description (of Acera bullata (O. F. Müller, 1776)) Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum: characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Typis Hallagerii, Havni, Copenhagen. 282 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 242 [details]

original description (of Acera elegans Locard, 1886) Locard, A. (1886). Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusques marins. Lyon: H. Georg & Paris: Baillière. x + 778 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10831012
page(s): 535 [details]

original description (of Akera flexilis T. Brown, 1844) Brown T. (1844). Illustrations of the Recent Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, with the description and localities of all the species, marine, land, and fresh water. Ed. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Drawn and Coloured from Nature. Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10921172 [details]

original description (of Bulla elastica Danilo & Sandri, 1856) Danilo, F. & Sandri, G. B. (1856). Elenco nominale dei gasteropodi testacei marini raccolti nei dintorni di Zara. pp. 107-150, In: Programma dell'I.R. ginnasio completo di prima classe: in Zara alla fine dell'anno scolastico 1855-1856. Zara, Tipografia Governiale. , available online at https://books.google.es/books?id=_sJfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA107 [details]

original description (of Bulla norwegica Bruguière, 1792) Bruguière, J. G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers, volume 1. Paris: Pancoucke. Pp. i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006 [details]

original description (of Bulla resiliens Donovan, 1801) Donovan E. (1799-1804). The natural history of British shells: including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discovered in Great Britain, systematically arranged in the Linnean manner, with scientific and general observations on each. 5 volumes, London, printed fro the Author, and for F. and C. Rivington, 180 plates with unpaginated text. Vol. 1: introduction 3 pp; pl. 1-18 [1799]; pl. 19-36; index 10 pp. [1800] . Vol. 2: pl. 37-54 [1800]; pl. 55-72, index 10 pp. [1801]. Vol. 3: pl. 73-90 [1801]; pl. 91-108, index 8 pp. [1802]; Vol. 4: pl. 109-126 [1802]; pl. 127-144, index 8 pp [1803]. Vol. 5: pl. 145-162 [1803]; pl.163-180, index 7 pp. [1804]. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.64386 [details]

original description (of Acera bullata var. nana Jeffreys, 1867) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). British conchology. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): vol. 4 p. 431 [details]

original description (of Bulla (Akera) hanleyi A. Adams, 1850) Adams, A. (1850). Monograph of the family Bullidae. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 2 (11): 553-608, pls 119-125. London, privately published. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43936916 [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 Valdés Á. & Lozouet P. (2000). Opisthobranch molluscs from the Tertiary of the Aquitaine Basin (south-western France), with descriptions of seven new species and a new genus. Palaeontology. 43(3): 457-479., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0031-0239.2000.00135.x/pdf [details]

additional source Morton J.E. & Holme N.A. (1955). The occurrence at Plymouth of the Opisthobranch Akera bullata with notes on its habits and relationship. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 30: 101-110., available online at http://plymsea.ac.uk/1645/1/The_occurrence_at_Plymouth_of_the_opisthobranch_Akera_bullata%2C_with_notes_on_its_habits_and_relationships.pdf [details]

status source ICZN. (1959). Opinion 539. Protection under the Plenary Powers of the specific name bullata Müller (O.F.), 1776, as published in the combination Akera bullata (Class Gastropoda). Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 20 (6): 65-76., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34655324 [details]

ecology source Thompson, T. E. & Seaward, D. R. (1989). Ecology and taxonomic status of the aplysiomorph Akera bullata in the British Isles. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 55(4): 489-496., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/55.4.489 [details]