Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Ringipleura > Superorder Nudipleura > Order Nudibranchia > Suborder Cladobranchia > Superfamily Cladobranchia incertae sedis > Family Embletoniidae > Genus Embletonia

Embletonia pulchra (Alder & Hancock, 1844)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Pterochilus Alder & Hancock, 1844

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Embletonia*	Alder & Hancock, 1851	accepted genus name
*Pterochilus*	Alder & Hancock, 1844	synonym

Species group names

*Embletonia faurei*	Labbé, 1923	synonym

Literature

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	Edmunds, M. (2015). Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Ghana: Flabellinidae, Piseinotecidae, Eubranchidae & Embletoniidae. Journal of Conchology. 42(2): 105-124.
additional source	Fernández-Simón, J.; Salvador, X.; Moles, J. (2025). Digging in the sand: new species and records of mesopsammic sea slugs in the Western Mediterranean (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Journal of Natural History. 59(5-8): 411-454.

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Embletonia pulchra (Alder & Hancock, 1844). 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:141638