WoRMS name details
Discodoris confusa Ballesteros, Llera & Ortea, 1985
139563 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139563)
alternative representation
Discodoris maculosa Bergh, 1884 represented as Tayuva lilacina (A. Gould, 1852)
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Ballesteros M., Llera E. M. & Ortea J. (1985). Revision de les Doridacea (Mollusca: Opistobranchia) del Atlantico nordeste atribuibles al complejo maculosa-fragilis. <i>Bollettino Malacologico</i>, 20 (9-12): 227-257. [details]
Taxonomy Following Dayrat (2010), this becomes synonym of Discodoris maculosa Bergh, 1884, which itself is subsumed in “Tayuva...
Taxonomy Following Dayrat (2010), this becomes synonym of Discodoris maculosa Bergh, 1884, which itself is subsumed in “Tayuva lilacina of Mediterranean and Eastern European Atlantic”; however this synonymy is not unanimously accepted and the species is therefore treated here as "alternate representation". This species was misidentified as Discodoris fragilis by Ortea, Bacallado & Sánchez, 1981
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MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Discodoris confusa Ballesteros, Llera & Ortea, 1985. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139563 on 2024-11-21
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original description
Ballesteros M., Llera E. M. & Ortea J. (1985). Revision de les Doridacea (Mollusca: Opistobranchia) del Atlantico nordeste atribuibles al complejo maculosa-fragilis. <i>Bollettino Malacologico</i>, 20 (9-12): 227-257. [details]
basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]
source of synonymy Dayrat B. (2010). A monographic revision of basal discodorid sea slugs (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Nudibranchia, Doridina). <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> Series 4, vol. 61, suppl. I, 1-403, 382 figs. [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]
source of synonymy Dayrat B. (2010). A monographic revision of basal discodorid sea slugs (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Nudibranchia, Doridina). <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> Series 4, vol. 61, suppl. I, 1-403, 382 figs. [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Taxonomy Following Dayrat (2010), this becomes synonym of Discodoris maculosa Bergh, 1884, which itself is subsumed in “Tayuva lilacina of Mediterranean and Eastern European Atlantic”; however this synonymy is not unanimously accepted and the species is therefore treated here as "alternate representation". This species was misidentified as Discodoris fragilis by Ortea, Bacallado & Sánchez, 1981[details]
