Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Ringipleura > Superorder Nudipleura > Order Nudibranchia > Suborder Doridina > Infraorder Doridoidei > Superfamily Doridoidea > Family Discodorididae > Genus Sclerodoris

Sclerodoris tuberculata Eliot, 1904

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Sclerodoris*	Eliot, 1904	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Sclerodoris minor*	Eliot, 1904	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Variable Granulated Dorid

Literature

original description	Eliot, C. N. E. (1904). On some nudibranchs from East Africa and Zanzibar part. III. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1903:2:354-385. [Dated December 1st 1903 but not published until April 1904].
basis of record	Rudman, W. B. (1978). The dorid opisthobranch genera Halgerda Bergh and Sclerodoris Eliot from the Indo-West Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 62: 59-88.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
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	Innabi, J., Stout, C. C. & Valdés, Á. (2023). Seven new “cryptic” species of Discodorididae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia) from New Caledonia. ZooKeys. 1152: 45-95.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Sclerodoris tuberculata Eliot, 1904. 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:209606