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

Peltodoris Bergh, 1880

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Montereina*	MacFarland, 1905	synonym

Children

Peltodoris atromaculata Bergh, 1880
Peltodoris punctifera (Abraham, 1877)
Peltodoris sordii Perrone, 1990

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: atromaculata leopard nudibranch 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.

German: Leopardenschnecke

Literature

original description	Bergh, R. (1880). Über die Gattung Peltodoris. Mittheilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel. 2(2): 222-232, pl. 11.
basis of record	Valdés Á. (2002). A phylogenetic analysis and systematic revision of the cryptobranch dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Anthobranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 136: 535-636.
additional source	Dayrat B. (2010). A monographic revision of basal discodorid sea slugs (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Nudibranchia, Doridina). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Series 4, vol. 61, suppl. I, 1-403, 382 figs.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Peltodoris Bergh, 1880. 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:225423