Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Ringipleura > Superorder Nudipleura > Order Nudibranchia > Suborder Cladobranchia > Superfamily Dendronotoidea > Family Phylliroidae > Genus Phylliroe

Phylliroe bucephala Lamarck, 1816

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Phylliroe*	F. Péron & Lesueur, 1810	accepted genus name
*Eurydice*	Eschscholtz, 1825	synonym

Species group names

Phylliroe bucephale	Péron & Lesueur, 1810	synonym
*Phylliroe bucephalum*	[sic]	synonym
*Phylliroe roseum*	A. d'Orbigny, 1836	synonym
*Phylliroe sanzoi*	Sparta, 1925	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Pink-spotted Fishdragon 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: コノハウミウシ

Literature

original description	Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de M. de]. (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23 [Livraison 84, 14 December 1816], Tome 3, pp. 1-16, pls. 391-431, 431 bis, 431 bis*, 432-488, Paris: Vve Agasse.
basis of record	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	Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième, 711 pp. Paris, published by the author.
additional source	Vessichelli, N. (1906). Contribuzioni allo studio della Phylliroë bucephala Péron & Lesueur. Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel. 18: 105-135, pl. 5-6.
additional source	Rees, W.J., 1953. Note on Phyllirrhoe bucephala Péron and Lesueur and Mnestra parasites Krohn. Proc. malacol. Soc. 29 6: 219-221.
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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Phylliroe bucephala Lamarck, 1816. 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:581832