| Bursatella | |
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| Bursatella leachii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Aplysiida |
| Family: | Aplysiidae |
| Genus: | Bursatella Blainville, 18171 |
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| Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817
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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
References
- 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.
- 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
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.