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 Stylocheilus

Stylocheilus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Stylocheilus*	A. Gould, 1852	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Aplysia striata*	Quoy & Gaimard, 1832	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Spiky 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: クロスジアメフラシ

Literature

basis of record	Bazzicalupo, E., Crocetta, F., Gosliner, T. M., Berteaux-Lecellier, V., Camacho-García, Y. E., Chandran, B. K. S. & Valdés, Á. (2020). Molecular and morphological systematics of Bursatella leachii de Blainville, 1817 and Stylocheilus striatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 reveal cryptic diversity in pantropically distributed taxa (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Heterobranchia). Invertebrate Systematics. 34: 535-568.
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	Ortea J., Moro L., Bacallado J.J. & Sanchez J.J. (2008) Nuevas aportaciones a la fauna de opistobranquios (Mollusca: Gasteropoda) de las islas Canarias. Vieraea 36: 129-136.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Stylocheilus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832). 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:224662