WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Alderia scaldiana Nyst, 1855) Nyst H. 1855. Description succincte d'un nouveau mollusque marin des rives de l'Escaut. <i>Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique</i>, 22: 435-437, available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=tPozAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA436 page(s): 435, figs 1-2 [details]
original description
(of Stiliger modestus Lovén, 1844) Lovén, S. (1844). Om nordiska hafs-mollusker. <em>Öfversigt af Kungliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 1(3): 48-53., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2602980 page(s): 49 [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. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]
Taxonomystatus source
Ellingson, R. A.; Vo, J.; Llaban, A.; Lugo, L. M.; Vendetti, J. E.; Krug, P. J. (2025). Coastal elites: Recurrent trans‐Arctic migration and vicariance in a cosmopolitan sea slug driven by Pleistocene glacial cycles. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12738: 1-19., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12738 [details]
Otheradditional source
Bleakney, J. S. (1996). Sea slugs of Atlantic Canada and the Gulf of Maine. <em>The Nova Scotia Museum Field Guide Series. Nimbus Publishing. Halifax.</em> 1-216. [details]
additional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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]
From editor or global species database
Distribution Alderia modesta is the only species of Alderia found in the northeastern Atlantic. European populations have been widely reported from the United Kingdom and Ireland, Scandinavia and surrounding waters, the German Baltic coast as well as estuaries in the Netherlands, Belgium and France. There are no confirmed records from the Mediterranean. [details]Unreviewed
Classification Vader (1981) has placed A. modesta in a new family: Alderiidae. [details]
Dimensions maximum size of 6 to 8 mm [details]
Distribution This species is a typical brackish species. [details]
Habitat infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
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