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Limacia clavigera (O. F. Müller, 1776)
140830 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140830)
accepted
Species
Doris clavigera O. F. Müller, 1776 · unaccepted (original combination)
Euplocamus plumosus W. Thompson, 1840 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tergipes pulcher G. Johnston, 1834 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine
(of Doris clavigera O. F. Müller, 1776) Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 229 [details]
page(s): 229 [details]
Distribution Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Iceland, the Netherlands, Atlantic coast of France, all around the British Isles,...
Distribution Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Iceland, the Netherlands, Atlantic coast of France, all around the British Isles, Atlantic coast of Spain and Portugal. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Limacia clavigera (O. F. Müller, 1776). Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140830 on 2025-09-10
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original description
(of Euplocamus plumosus W. Thompson, 1840) Thompson, W. (1840). Contributions towards a knowledge of the Mollusca Nudibranchia and Mollusca Tunicata of Ireland, with descriptions of some apparently new species of Invertebrata. <i>Annals of Natural History</i>, 5: 84-102, pl. 2, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22191054
page(s): 90-91, pl. 2 fig. 4 [details]
original description (of Doris clavigera O. F. Müller, 1776) Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 229 [details]
basis of record Toms J.A., Pola M., Von der Heyden S. & Gosliner T.M. (2021). Disentangling species of the genus <i>Limacia</i> O.F. Müller, 1781, from southern Africa and Europe using integrative taxonomical methods, with the description of four new species. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 51(1): 1-31., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-020-01125-0
page(s): 15, figs 7a–b, 5c, 8 [details] Available for editors
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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. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Gosliner, T. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
page(s): 99. [details]
additional source Caballer Gutiérrez M., Almón Pazos B. & Pérez Dieste J. (2016). The sea slug genus <i>Limacia</i> Müller, 1781 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) in Europe. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 57: 35-42. [details]
page(s): 90-91, pl. 2 fig. 4 [details]
original description (of Doris clavigera O. F. Müller, 1776) Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 229 [details]
basis of record Toms J.A., Pola M., Von der Heyden S. & Gosliner T.M. (2021). Disentangling species of the genus <i>Limacia</i> O.F. Müller, 1781, from southern Africa and Europe using integrative taxonomical methods, with the description of four new species. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 51(1): 1-31., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-020-01125-0
page(s): 15, figs 7a–b, 5c, 8 [details] Available for editors
[request]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. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Gosliner, T. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
page(s): 99. [details]
additional source Caballer Gutiérrez M., Almón Pazos B. & Pérez Dieste J. (2016). The sea slug genus <i>Limacia</i> Müller, 1781 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) in Europe. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 57: 35-42. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Distribution Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Iceland, the Netherlands, Atlantic coast of France, all around the British Isles, Atlantic coast of Spain and Portugal. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | wrattige mosdierslak | [details] |
| English | orange-clubbed sea slugorange-clubbed nudibranch | [details] |
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