WoRMS taxon details
original description
Ekimova I.A., Grishina D.Yu., Nikitenko E.D. (2024). Nudibranch molluscs of Sakhalin Island, Northwestern Pacific: new records and descriptions of two new species. <em>Ruthenica, Russian Malacological Journal.</em> 34(2): 69-91. page(s): 76, figs. 2C, 4, 5 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Etymology This species is named after French ship “Boussole” commanded by Jean-François de
Galaup, Comte de Lapérouse, famous French explorer and leader of the scientific expedition around the world. The Comte de Lapérouse was the first European explorer reaching the northwestern coast of the Sea of Japan (Tataria), western and southern parts of Sakhalin Island. On the 15–16 August 1787 his expedition reached the same locality as the type
locality of the new species to the south from the Gulf of Patience [details]
Type locality The Sea of Okhotsk, Bay of Patience, 47°42.5’N, 144°30.3’E, 209–240 m in depth [details]
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