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 Polyceroidea > Family Polyceridae > Subfamily Polycerinae

Polycera Cuvier, 1816

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Greilada*	Bergh, 1894	synonym
*Polycera (Greilada)*	Bergh, 1894	synonym

Children

Polycera aurantiomarginata García-Gómez & Bobo, 1984
Polycera elegans (Bergh, 1894)
Polycera faeroensis Lemche, 1929
Polycera hedgpethi Er. Marcus, 1964
Polycera kernowensis Korshunova, Driessen, Picton & Martynov, 2021
Polycera maculata Pruvot-Fol, 1951
Polycera quadrilineata (O. F. Müller, 1776)

Literature

original description	Cuvier G. (1816 ["1817"]). Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. [Work generally dated 1817; published before 2 December 1816 according to Roux, Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 8(1): 31] Tome 1, 540 pp.; Tome 2, 528 pp.; Tome 3, 653 pp.; Tome 4, 255 pp., 15 pl. Deterville, Paris.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Polycera Cuvier, 1816. 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:138369