Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Ringipleura > Superorder Nudipleura > Order Pleurobranchida > Superfamily Pleurobranchoidea > Family Pleurobranchidae

Pleurobranchus Cuvier, 1804

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Oscanius*	Leach, 1847	synonym
*Pleurobranchus (Oscanius)*	Leach, 1847	synonym
*Pleurobranchus (Susania)*	Gray, 1857	synonym; alternate representation
*Susania*	Gray, 1857	synonym

Children

Pleurobranchus areolatus Mörch, 1863
Pleurobranchus crossei Vayssière, 1897
Pleurobranchus forskalii Rüppell & Leuckart, 1828
Pleurobranchus membranaceus (Montagu, 1816)
Pleurobranchus reticulatus Rang, 1832
Pleurobranchus testudinarius Cantraine, 1835

Literature

original description	Cuvier G. (1804). Mémoire sur la phyllidie et le pleurobranche. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. 5: 266-276, pl. 18.
basis of record	Goodheart J., Camacho-García Y., Padula V., Schrödl M., Cervera J.L., Gosliner T.M. & Valdés Á. (2015). Systematics and biogeography of Pleurobranchus Cuvier, 1804, sea slugs (Heterobranchia: Nudipleura: Pleurobranchidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 174: 322-362.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pleurobranchus Cuvier, 1804. 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:138364