Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Ringipleura > Superorder Nudipleura > Order Nudibranchia > Suborder Doridina > Infraorder Doridoidei > Superfamily Onchidoridoidea > Family Onchidorididae

Acanthodoris J. E. Gray, 1850

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Acanthodoris pilosa (Abildgaard, 1789)

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1850). [text]. In: Gray, M. E., Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp. (August) [Frontispiece (portrait of Mrs. Gray); pp. ii–iv (preface); 1–62 (explanation of plates 1–312 in Volumes 1–3); pp. 63–124 (systematic arrangement of figures); 127–219 (reprint of Gray 1847).
basis of record	Fahey S.J. & Valdés A. (2005). Review of Acanthodoris Gray, 1850 with a phylogenetic analysis of Onchidorididae Alder and Hancock, 1845 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 56(20): 213-273.
additional source	Hallas J.M., Simison W.B. & Gosliner T.M. (2016). Dating and biogeographical patterns in the sea slug genus Acanthodoris Gray, 1850 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 97: 19-31.
additional source	Ekimova, I. A.; Nikitenko, E.; Stanovova, M.; Schepetov, D. M.; Antokhina, T. I.; Valdés, Á. (2024). Integrative taxonomy and phylogeography of the genus Acanthodoris (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) in the Russian seas, with the description of a new genus. Zoosystematica Rossica. 33(2): 244-273.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Acanthodoris J. E. Gray, 1850. 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:138284