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 Dolabrifera

Dolabrifera dolabrifera (Rang, 1828)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Aplysia Nardo, 1833

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dolabrifera*	J. E. Gray, 1847	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Dappled Sea Hare sources: Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Southern Underwater Research Group Press, 7 Blackwood Drive, Hout Bay 7806, Cape Town, South Africa.

Japanese: ビワガタナメクジ

Literature

basis of record	Valdés Á., Breslau E., Padula V., Schrödl M., Camacho Y., Malaquias M.A.E., Alexander J., Bottomley M., Vital X.G., Hooker Y. & Gosliner T.M. (2018 [nomenclatural availability 2017]). Molecular and morphological systematics of Dolabrifera Gray, 1847 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Aplysiomorpha). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 184(1): 31-65.
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	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.
additional source	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.
redescription	Thompson, T. E. (1977). Jamaican opisthobranch molluscs I. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 43: 93-140.
redescription	Martínez E. & Ortea J. (1990). Moluscos opistobranquios de Cabo Verde: Anaspidea (Aplysiomorpha). Publicações Ocasionais da Sociedade Portuguesa de Malacologia. 15: 17-42.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dolabrifera dolabrifera (Rang, 1828). 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:224652