Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Aplysiida > Superfamily Aplysioidea > Family Aplysiidae > Genus Petalifera

Petalifera ramosa Baba, 1959

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Petalifera*	J. E. Gray, 1847	accepted genus name
*Aplysiella*	P. Fischer, 1872	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Ornate Sea Hare

Literature

original description	Baba, K. (1959). The genus Petalifera and a new species, P. ramosa, from Japan. Publications of the Seto marine Biological Laboratory. 7(3): 43-44.
basis of record	Bebbington, A., 1977. Aplysiid species from eastern Australia with notes on the Pacific Ocean Aplysiomorpha (Gastropoda, Opistobranchia). Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 34 1: 87-147.
additional source	Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Southern Underwater Research Group Press, 7 Blackwood Drive, Hout Bay 7806, Cape Town, South Africa.
additional source	Nimbs M. J., Willan R. C. & Smith S. D. A. (2017). Is Port Stephens, eastern Australia, a global hotspot for biodiversity of Aplysiidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia)?. Molluscan Research. 37(1): 47-65.
additional source	Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
redescription	Thompson, T. E. (1977). Jamaican opisthobranch molluscs I. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 43: 93-140.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Petalifera ramosa Baba, 1959. 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:181222