Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Superorder Sacoglossa > Superfamily Plakobranchoidea > Family Limapontiidae > Genus Alderia

Alderia modesta (Lovén, 1844)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Stiliger Ehrenberg, 1828

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Alderia*	Allman, 1845	accepted genus name
*Canthopsis*	Agassiz, 1850	synonym

Species group names

*Alderia scaldiana*	Nyst, 1855	synonym
*Canthopsis harvardiana*	Agassiz, 1850	synonym; nom. nud.
*Stiliger amphibius*	Allman, 1845	synonym
*Stiliger scaldianus*	(Nyst, 1855)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: gewone kwelderslak; kwelderslak sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

English: modest alderia sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

German: Salzwiesen-Nacktschnecke

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	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.
additional source	Hand, C. (1955). Alderia modesta in Washington. The Nautilus. 69(2): 72.
additional source	Bleakney, J. S. (1996). Sea slugs of Atlantic Canada and the Gulf of Maine. The Nova Scotia Museum Field Guide Series. Nimbus Publishing. Halifax. 1-216.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Hand, C. & Steinberg, J. (1955). On the occurrence of the nudibranch Alderia modesta (Lovén, 1844) on the central Californian coast. The Nautilus. 69(1): 22-28, text-figs. 1-4.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Alderia modesta (Lovén, 1844). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141555