Canadian Register of Marine Species - Onchidoris Blainville, 1816

CaRMS taxon details

Onchidoris Blainville, 1816

AphiaID

138288 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138288)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Onchidorididae J. E. Gray, 1827

Original name

Onchidorus Blainville, 1816

Synonymised names

Lamellidoris Alder & Hancock, 1855 · unaccepted

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Species Onchidoris bilamellata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Species Onchidoris muricata (O. F. Müller, 1776)
Species Onchidoris diademata (A. A. Gould, 1870) (uncertain > nomen dubium)
Species Onchidoris grisea (A. A. Gould, 1870) (uncertain > nomen dubium)
Species Onchidoris tenella (A. A. Gould, 1870) (uncertain > nomen dubium)
Species Onchidoris aspera (Alder & Hancock, 1842) accepted as Onchidoris muricata (O. F. Müller, 1776)
Species Onchidoris fusca (O. F. Müller, 1776) accepted as Onchidoris bilamellata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Species Onchidoris proxima (Alder & Hancock, 1854) accepted as Adalaria proxima (Alder & Hancock, 1854)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1816). Quatrième mémoire sur les mollusques, de l'ordre des Cyclobranches. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomathique de Paris. 1816: 93-97., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4153478 [details]

(of ) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1816). Quatrième mémoire sur les mollusques, de l'ordre des Cyclobranches. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomathique de Paris. 1816: 93-97., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4153478
page(s): 96 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Onchidoris Blainville, 1816. Accessed through: Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138288 on 2026-08-11

Regional species database citation

Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2026). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Onchidoris Blainville, 1816. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138288 on 2026-08-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2012-04-15 09:22:10Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2022-12-30 08:13:15Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1816). Quatrième mémoire sur les mollusques, de l'ordre des Cyclobranches. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomathique de Paris. 1816: 93-97., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4153478 [details]

original description (of Lamellidoris Alder & Hancock, 1855) Alder, J. & A. Hancock. (1845-55). A monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca: with figures of all the species. Ray Society, London. 1-54, pls.1-48., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/65015
page(s): Appendix: xiv, xvii [details]

original description (of ) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1816). Quatrième mémoire sur les mollusques, de l'ordre des Cyclobranches. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomathique de Paris. 1816: 93-97., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4153478
page(s): 96 [details]

basis of record Fahey S.J. & Valdés A. (2005). Review of Acanthodoris Gray, 1850 with a phylogenetic analysis of Onchidorididae Alder and Hancock, 1845 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 56(20): 213-273., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/scipubs/pdfs/v56/proccas_v56_n20.pdf [details]

additional source Martynov, A. & Korshunova, T. (2025). Hidden diversity of the North Pacific prompts reorganization of the taxonomic system. Moscow: Neptune. ISBN 978-5-9905149-3-5. 48 pp.
page(s): 25-26 [details] Available for editors