North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817

Bursatella leachii

AphiaID

138759 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138759)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Bursatella Blainville, 1817

Parent

Bursatella Blainville, 1817

Original name

Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817

Synonymised names

Bursatella leachi [sic] · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling

Bursatella leachii guineensis Bebbington, 1969 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Bursatella leachii savigniana Audouin, 1826 · unaccepted

Bursatella savigniana Audouin, 1826 · unaccepted

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Subspecies Bursatella leachii guineensis Bebbington, 1969 accepted as Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Subspecies Bursatella leachii savigniana Audouin, 1826 accepted as Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

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. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23001647
page(s): 138 [details]

Type data

Note stated as unknown

Type locality stated as unknown [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138759 on 2026-04-18

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=138759 on 2026-04-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Gofas, Serge

2010-10-12 15:33:09Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2020-04-20 20:09:38Z

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Marshall, Bruce

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original description 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. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23001647
page(s): 138 [details]

original description (of Bursatella leachii guineensis Bebbington, 1969) Bebbington A. (1969) Bursatella leachi guineensis subsp. nov. (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) from Ghana. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 38: 323-341.
page(s): 323 [details]

original description (of Bursatella savigniana Audouin, 1826) Audouin, V. (1826). Explication sommaire des planches de Mollusques de l'Egypte et de la Syrie publiées par J.C. Savigny. in: Description de l'Egypte ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française, publié par les ordres de sa majesté l'empereur Napoléon le grand. Histoire Naturelle, Animaux invertébrés. 1(4): 7-56., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41330029
page(s): 17-18 [details]

context source (Introduced species) Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. BioInvasions Records. 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details] Available for editors

context source (Bermuda) Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp [details]

basis of record Bazzicalupo, E., Crocetta, F., Gosliner, T. M., Berteaux-Lecellier, V., Camacho-García, Y. E., Chandran, B. K. S. & Valdés, Á. (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., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/is19056
page(s): 542, figs 2A-B, 3-6 [details]

additional source Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Southern Underwater Research Group Press, 7 Blackwood Drive, Hout Bay 7806, Cape Town, South Africa.
page(s): 724 [details]

additional source Occhipinti-Ambrogi, A., A. Marchini, G. Cantone, A. Castelli, C. Chimenz, M. Cormaci, C. Froglia, G. Furnari, M.C. Gambi, G. Giaccone, A. Giangrande, C. Gravil, F. Mastrototaro, C. Mazziotti, L. Orsi-Relini & S. Piraino. (2010). Alien species along the Italian coasts: an overview. Biological Invasions. 13(1): 215-237., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-010-9803-y [details] Available for editors

additional source Gosliner, T. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004631496
page(s): 48. [details]

additional source Nimbs M. J., Willan R. C. & Smith S. D. A. (2017). Is Port Stephens, eastern Australia, a global hotspot for biodiversity of Aplysiidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia)?. Molluscan Research. 37(1): 47-65., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13235818.2016.1207280 [details]