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 Polyceroidea > Family Polyceridae > Subfamily Triophinae > Genus Kaloplocamus

Kaloplocamus ramosus (Cantraine, 1835)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Kaloplocamus*	Bergh, 1880	accepted genus name
*Euplocamus*	R. A. Philippi, 1836	junior homonym

Species group names

*Doris ramosa*	Cantraine, 1835	synonym
*Euplocamus atlanticus*	Bergh, 1892	synonym
*Euplocamus croceus*	R. A. Philippi, 1836	synonym
*Euplocamus frondosus*	R. A. Philippi, 1839	synonym
*Kaloplocamus atlanticus*	(Bergh, 1892)	synonym
*Kaloplocamus aureus*	Odhner, 1932	synonym
*Kaloplocamus filosus*	Cattaneo-Vietti & Sordi, 1988	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: エダウミウシ

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Vallès Y.; Gosliner T.M. (2006). Shedding light onto the genera (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) Kaloplocamus and Plocamopherus with description of new species belonging to these unique bioluminescent dorids. The Veliger. 48(3): 178-205.
additional source	Herbert, D.G., Jones, G.J. & Atkinson, L.J. (2018). Phylum Mollusca. In: Atkinson, L.J. and Sink, K.J. (eds) Field Guide to the Offshore Marine Invertebrates of South Africa. Malachite Marketing and Media: Pretoria. Pp. 249–320.
additional source	Vanhaelen A., Massin C., Martin J. & Laffargue P. 2014. Kaloplocamus ramosus (Cantraine, 1835) (Gastropoda: Polyceridae): new records in the Bay of Biscay, with notes on distribution and food. Iberus, 32(1): 53-64
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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Kaloplocamus ramosus (Cantraine, 1835). 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:141710