North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Spurilla Bergh, 1864

AphiaID

137636 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137636)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Eolis neapolitana Delle Chiaje, 1841 accepted as Spurilla neapolitana (Delle Chiaje, 1841) (type by monotypy)

Parent

Aeolidiidae J. E. Gray, 1827

Original name

Spurilla Bergh, 1864

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Species Spurilla braziliana MacFarland, 1909
Species Spurilla neapolitana (Delle Chiaje, 1841)
Species Spurilla coerulescens (Laurillard, 1832) accepted as Berghia coerulescens (Laurillard, 1832)
Species Spurilla columbina García-Gómez & T. E. Thompson, 1990 accepted as Berghia columbina (García-Gómez & T. E. Thompson, 1990) (original combination)
Species Spurilla croisicensis (Labbé, 1923) accepted as Aeolidiella sanguinea (A. M. Norman, 1877) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Spurilla major (Eliot, 1903) accepted as Baeolidia moebii Bergh, 1888
Species Spurilla margaritae Labbé, 1923 accepted as Berghia verrucicornis (A. Costa, 1867)
Species Spurilla mograbina Pruvot-Fol, 1953 accepted as Spurilla neapolitana (Delle Chiaje, 1841) (uncertain synonym)
Species Spurilla onubensis Carmona, Lei, Pola, Gosliner, Á. Valdés & Cervera, 2014 accepted as Spurilla croisicensis (Labbé, 1923) accepted as Aeolidiella sanguinea (A. M. Norman, 1877)
Species Spurilla vayssierei García-Gómez & Cervera, 1985 accepted as Spurilla neapolitana (Delle Chiaje, 1841)
Species Spurilla verrucicornis (A. Costa, 1867) accepted as Berghia verrucicornis (A. Costa, 1867) (currently placed in genus Berghia)

Environment

marine

Original description

Bergh, L. S. R. (1864). Anatomiske bidrag til kundskab om Aeolidierne. Det Kongelige Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, Naturvidenskabelige og Mathematiske Afdeling. 7: 139–316., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34761413
page(s): 205 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Spurilla Bergh, 1864. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=137636 on 2026-07-10

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Spurilla Bergh, 1864. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=137636 on 2026-07-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-03-14 12:59:18Z

checked

Wambiji, Nina

2012-06-03 01:55:19Z

checked

Rosenberg, Gary

2013-05-04 12:52:15Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2024-01-20 19:01:28Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

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original description Bergh, L. S. R. (1864). Anatomiske bidrag til kundskab om Aeolidierne. Det Kongelige Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, Naturvidenskabelige og Mathematiske Afdeling. 7: 139–316., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34761413
page(s): 205 [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. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]

additional source Carmona, L.; Pola, M.; Gosliner, T. M.; Cervera, J. L. (2013). A tale that morphology fails to tell: A molecular phylogeny of Aeolidiidae (Aeolidida, Nudibranchia, Gastropoda). PLoS ONE. 8 (5): e63000., available online at https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0063000 [details]

additional source Carmona L., Lei B.R., Pola M., Gosliner T.M., Valdés Á. & Cervera J.L. 2014. Untangling the Spurilla neapolitana (Delle Chiaje, 1841) species complex: a review of the genus Spurilla Bergh, 1864 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Aeolidiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 170(1): 132–154, available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/256209.pdf [details]

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Spurilla neapolitana

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