Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Pteropoda > Suborder Gymnosomata > Superfamily Clionoidea > Family Notobranchaeidae > Genus Notobranchaea

Notobranchaea tetrabranchiata Bonnevie, 1913

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Notobranchaea*	Pelseneer, 1886	accepted genus name
*Microdonta*	Bonnevie, 1913	junior homonym
*Schleschia*	Strand, 1932	synonym

Species group names

*Schleschia tetrabranchiata*	(Bonnevie, 1913)	synonym

Literature

original description	Bonnevie K. (1913) Pteropoda from the "Michael Sars" North Atlantic Deep-Sea Expedition 1910. Report on the Scientific Results of the "Michael Sars" North Atlantic Deep Sea Expedition 1910 3(1) 1-85, pls. 1-9. [MS completed in April 1912; printed in 1913 together with five other articles as volume 3(1); title page of completed volume 3 dated 1920; all three dates 1912, 1913 and 1920 are found in the literature]
basis of record	Spoel, S. van der & Pafort-van Iersel, T. (1985). Note on the taxonomy of the family Notobranchaeidae and description of Notobranchaea bleekerae n. sp., a species new to science (Gastropoda, Pteropoda). Basteria. 49(1-3): 29-36. [14 June 1985].
additional source	Spoel, S. van der & Dadon, J. R. (1999). Pteropoda. pp. 649-706, in: D. Boltovsloy (ed.), South Atlantic Zooplankton. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Notobranchaea tetrabranchiata Bonnevie, 1913. 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:719526