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 Fionoidea > Family Eubranchidae > Genus Eubranchus

Eubranchus tricolor Forbes, 1838

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Eubranchus*	Forbes, 1838	accepted genus name
*Amphorina*	Quatrefages, 1844	synonym
*Galvina*	Alder & Hancock, 1855	synonym

Species group names

*Eolis amethystina*	Alder & Hancock, 1845	synonym
*Eolis violacea*	Alder & Hancock, 1844	synonym
*Galvina viridula*	Bergh, 1873	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: painted balloon aeolis sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

German: Dreifarbige Ballon-Fadenschnecke

Literature

original description	Forbes, E. (1838). Malacologia Monensis: a catalogue of the Mollusca inhabiting the Isle of Man and the neighbouring sea. Edinburgh: J. Carfrae and son pp. XII + 63 + 3 pl.
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	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Edmunds, M. & Kress, A. (1969). On the European species of Eubranchus (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 49(4): 879-912.
additional source	Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974].
additional source	Rivest, B. R. & Harris, L. G. (1976). Eubranchus tricolor Forbes in the western Atlantic. The Nautilus. 90(4): 145-147, figs. 1-2.
additional source	Bromley, J.E.C. & J.S. Bleakney. (1985). Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report, Halifax, N.S. 24119: 366 PP.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Eubranchus tricolor Forbes, 1838. 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:139771