Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Acteonimorpha > Superfamily Acteonoidea > Family Aplustridae > Genus Hydatina

Hydatina physis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hydatina*	Schumacher, 1817	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Bulla physis*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: brown-line paperbubble; green paperbubble; green-lined paperbubble; liquorice-striped bubble snail; striped bubble shell sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Southern Underwater Research Group Press, 7 Blackwood Drive, Hout Bay 7806, Cape Town, South Africa.;Branch, G. M. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg.

German: Meeresrose sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: ミスガイ

Literature

basis of record	Voskuil, R. P. A. (1995). The living species of the genus Hydatina Schumacher, 1817, (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Hydatinidae) with the description of a new species. Vita Marina. 43 (1-2): 29-38.
additional source	Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	Gosliner, T. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
additional source	Lyman, F. B. (1938). Hydatina physis (L.) in Lake Worth, Florida. The Nautilus. 52(2): 72.
additional source	Beu, A. G. (2011). Marine Molluscs of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 41: 1-153.
additional source	Lyman, F. B. (1936). "It was a great day.". The Nautilus. 50(1): 29-30.
additional source	Bartsch, P. (1940). The correct name of the Florida Hydatina. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 53: 92 [28 June].
additional source	Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector's Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.
additional source	Chaban E.M. (2016). Heterobranch mollusks of the orders Acteonoidea and Cephalaspidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) of Vietnam: annotated check-list with illustrations of some species. In: A. V. Adrianov & K. A. Lutaenko (eds), Biodiversity of the western part of the South China Sea: 415-448. Vladivostok, Dalnauka.
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	Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone.
additional source	Lyman, F. B. (1938). Hydatina physis (L.) in Lake Worth, Florida. The Nautilus. 52(1): 33.
identification resource	Poppe G. (2010) Philippine marine mollusks volume 3. 665 pp., pls 708-1014. Hackenheim: Conchbooks.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Hydatina physis (Linnaeus, 1758). 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:215423