Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Ringipleura > Superorder Nudipleura > Order Pleurobranchida > Superfamily Pleurobranchoidea > Family Pleurobranchidae > Genus Berthella

Berthella tupala Er. Marcus, 1957

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: unresolved
Name Status: species inquirenda

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Berthella*	Blainville, 1824	accepted genus name
*Bouvieria*	Vayssière, 1897	synonym
*Cleanthus*	Leach, 1847	synonym
*Gymnotoplax*	Pilsbry, 1896	synonym
*Pleurobranchus (Bouvieria)*	Vayssière, 1897	synonym

Literature

original description	Marcus, Er. (1957). On Opisthobranchia from Brazil (2). Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Zoology). 43 (292): 390-486, figs. 1-246.
additional source	Bertsch, H. (1975). Distributional and anatomical observations of Berthella tupala (Opisthobranchia: Notaspidea). The Nautilus. 89(4): 124-126, figs. 1-7.
additional source	Gosliner, T. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
status source	Ghanimi, H.; Schrödl, M.; Goddard, J. H. R.; Ballesteros, M.; Gosliner, T. M.; Buske, Y.; Valdés, Á. (2020). Stargazing under the sea: molecular and morphological data reveal a constellation of species in the Berthella stellata (Risso, 1826) species complex (Mollusca, Heterobranchia, Pleurobranchidae). Marine Biodiversity. 50(1).

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Berthella tupala Er. Marcus, 1957. 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:548360