Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Ringipleura > Superorder Nudipleura > Order Pleurobranchida > Superfamily Pleurobranchoidea > Family Pleurobranchidae

Berthella Blainville, 1824

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Bouvieria*	Vayssière, 1897	synonym
*Cleanthus*	Leach, 1847	synonym
*Gymnotoplax*	Pilsbry, 1896	synonym
*Pleurobranchus (Bouvieria)*	Vayssière, 1897	synonym

Children

Berthella africana (Pruvot-Fol, 1953)
Berthella aurantiaca (Risso, 1818)
Berthella dautzenbergi (R. B. Watson, 1897)
Berthella elongata (Cantraine, 1835)
Berthella ocellata (Delle Chiaje, 1830)
Berthella perforata (R. A. Philippi, 1844)
Berthella plumula (Montagu, 1803)
Berthella sideralis Lovén, 1846
Berthella tupala Er. Marcus, 1957

Literature

original description	Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1824). Mollusques, Mollusca (Malacoz.), pp. 1-392. In: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 32. Levrault, Strasbourg et Paris, & Le Normant, Paris.
basis of record	Alvim J. & Pimenta A.D. (2015). Taxonomic review of Berthella and Berthellina (Gastropoda: Pleurobranchoidea) from Brazil, with description of two new species. Zoologia. 32(6): 497-531.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Berthella Blainville, 1824. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138361