Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Superorder Sacoglossa > Superfamily Plakobranchoidea > Family Hermaeidae > Genus Aplysiopsis

Aplysiopsis elegans Deshayes, 1853

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Aplysiopsis*	Deshayes, 1853	accepted genus name
*Hermaeina*	Trinchese, 1874	synonym

Species group names

*Hermaeina maculosa*	Trinchese, 1874	synonym

Literature

original description	Deshayes, G. P. (1839-1858). Traité élémentaire de conchyliologie: avec les applications de cette science à la géologie. Vol. 1(1): xii + 368 pp. [1839]; vol. 1(2), 824 pp., 6 fold-out tables [pp. 1-128, 1839; 129-824: 1850]; vol. 2: 384 pp. [pp. 1-194: 1857: 195-348: 1858; Atlas: 80 + xi pp., 132 pls. with various numbers; Explication des planches [pp. 1-24: 1839; pp. 25-48: 1850; pp. 49-80: 1853; appendice pp. i-iv: 1850, pp. v-xi: 1857]. Masson, Paris.
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.
additional source	Pruvot-Fol, A. (1954). Mollusques-Opisthobranches. In: Faune de France, Office Central de Faunistique, Paul Lechevalier, Paris 58:1-460, figs. 1-173, pl. 1.
additional source	Mavrič B., Trkov D. & Lipej L. (2014). First record of the Aplysiopsis elegans (Deshayes 1853) (Gastropoda Opisthobranchia: Saccoglossa) in the Adriatic Sea. Acta Adriatica. 55(2): 245-248,.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Aplysiopsis elegans Deshayes, 1853. 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:140087