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Dolabella auricularia ([Lightfoot], 1786)

208629  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208629)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Heterobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Euthyneura (Infraclass)
  7. Tectipleura (Subterclass)
  8. Aplysiida (Order)
  9. Aplysioidea (Superfamily)
  10. Aplysiidae (Family)
  11. Dolabella (Genus)
  12. Dolabella auricularia (Species)
accepted
Species
Dolabella scapula O'Donoghue, 1929 · unaccepted (non-binominal)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 154, 187. Cited figure in Rumphius. [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dolabella auricularia ([Lightfoot], 1786). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208629 on 2025-12-16
Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025). African Register of Marine Species. Dolabella auricularia ([Lightfoot], 1786). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208629 on 2025-12-16
Date
action
by
1997-03-27 14:11:34Z
created
Onyango, Eunice
2000-07-18 15:57:33Z
changed
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-04-12 18:06:51Z
checked
Bouchet, Philippe
2012-07-04 18:46:28Z
changed
Rosenberg, Gary
2024-08-12 08:49:46Z
changed
Herbert, David

original description (of ) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 154, 187. Cited figure in Rumphius. [details] 

basis of record Bebbington, A., 1977. Aplysiid species from eastern Australia with notes on the Pacific Ocean Aplysiomorpha (Gastropoda, Opistobranchia). Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 34 1: 87-147. [details] 

additional source Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
page(s): 133 [details] 

additional source Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector's Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.
page(s): 180. [details] 

additional source Gosliner, T. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
page(s): 48. [details] 

additional source Nimbs M. J., Willan R. C. & Smith S. D. A. (2017). Is Port Stephens, eastern Australia, a global hotspot for biodiversity of Aplysiidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia)?. <em>Molluscan Research.</em> 37(1): 47-65., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13235818.2016.1207280 [details] 

additional source Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). <i>Southern African Sea Slugs</i>. Southern Underwater Research Group Press, 7 Blackwood Drive, Hout Bay 7806, Cape Town, South Africa.
page(s): 720 [details] 

additional source Drivas, J. & Jay, M. (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Maurice. Collection les beautés de la nature. Delachaux et Niestlé: Neuchâtel. ISBN 2-603-00654-1. pp. 1-160. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Branch, G. M. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. <em>David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg.</em> , available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details] 
 
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    Definitions

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To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Dolabella rumphii Cuvier, 1817)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications) (from synonym Dolabella gigas (Rang, 1828))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications) (from synonym Dolabella scapula O'Donoghue, 1929)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dolabella auricularia) 
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 21 proteins) 
To Malacopics (Dolabella auricularia ([Lightfoot], 1786) Indo-Pacific, ex coll. Rotterdamsche Dier... 
To Malacopics (Dolabella auricularia ([Lightfoot], 1786) Indonesia, Papua Barat, Pulau Waigeo) 
To Malacopics (Dolabella auricularia ([Lightfoot], 1786) Japan, Wakayama, ex coll. J. Trausel .) 
To Malacopics (Dolabella auricularia ([Lightfoot], 1786) Madagascar, Toliara, Ifaty Lagoon, Mangil... 
To Malacopics (Dolabella auricularia ([Lightfoot], 1786) Mauritius) 
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org) 
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org) (from synonym Dolabella gigas (Rang, 1828))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Dolabella scapula O'Donoghue, 1929)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
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