Bursatella

Bursatella
Bursatella leachii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Euopisthobranchia
Clade:	Anaspidea
Superfamily:	Aplysioidea
Family:	Aplysiidae
Genus:	Bursatella Blainville, 1817[1]
Type species
Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817
Species
See text
Synonyms
Aclesia Rang, 1828 Barnardaclesia Eales & Engel, 1935 Notarchus (Bursatella) Blainville, 1817 Ramosaclesia Iredale, 1929 ·

Bursatella is a genus of sea slugs or sea hares, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Aplysiidae, the sea hares.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Bursatella include:

• Bursatella africana (Engel, 1926)
• Bursatella hirsuta Nimbs & N.G. Wilson, 2020
• Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817
• Bursatella ocelligera (Bergh, 1902)

Synonyms

• Bursatella lacinulata A. Gould, 1852: synonym of Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817 (junior subjective synonym)
• Bursatella leachi: synonym of Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817 (misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
• Bursatella savigniana Audouin, 1826: synonym of Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817

References

1. Blainville H.M.D. de (1817). Bursatella, p. 138 in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 5, supplément. Levrault, Strasbourg & Le Normant, Paris.
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Bursatella Blainville, 1817. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2021-01-27.

• Eales, N.; Engel, H. (1935). "The genus Bursatella De Blainville". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 21: 282.

External links

• Iredale, T. (1929). "Strange molluscs in Sydney Harbour". Australian Zoologist. 5 (4): 352.
• Bazzicalupo, Enrico; Crocetta, Fabio; Gosliner, Terrence M.; Berteaux-Lecellier, Véronique; Camacho-García, Yolanda E.; Chandran, B. K. Sneha; Valdés, Ángel (2020). "Molecular and morphological systematics of Bursatella leachii de Blainville, 1817 and Stylocheilus striatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 reveal cryptic diversity in pantropically distributed taxa (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Heterobranchia)". Invertebrate Systematics. 34: 535–568. doi:10.1071/is19056.