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 Aeolidioidea > Family Aeolidiidae > Genus Spurilla

Spurilla neapolitana (Delle Chiaje, 1841)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Eolis Cuvier, 1805

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Spurilla*	Bergh, 1864	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Eolis conspersa*	P. Fischer, 1869	synonym
*Flabellina inornata*	A. Costa, 1866	synonym
*Spurilla mograbina*	Pruvot-Fol, 1953	synonym
*Spurilla vayssierei*	García-Gómez & Cervera, 1985	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Naples spurilla; Neapolitan spurilla sources: Bermuda Biodiversity Database;DORIS: Données d'Observations pour la Reconnaissance et l'Identification de la faune et de la flore Subaquatiques.

French: limace à bigoudis sources: DORIS: Données d'Observations pour la Reconnaissance et l'Identification de la faune et de la flore Subaquatiques.

Japanese: イズミミノウミウシ

Literature

additional source	Edmunds, M. (2015). Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Ghana: Aeolidiidae, with consideration of several Caribbean species. Journal of Conchology. 42(1): 1-20.
additional source	Gosliner, T. M. (1980 ["1979"]). The systematics of the Aeolidiacea (Nudibranchia: Mollusca) of the Hawaiian Islands, with descriptions of two new species. Pacific Science. 33(1): 37-77.
additional source	Carmona, L., Pola, M., Gosliner, T.M. & Cervera, J.L. (2013). A tale that morphology fails to tell: A molecular phylogeny of Aeolidiidae (Aeolidida, Nudibranchia, Gastropoda). PLoS ONE. 8(5): e63000.
additional source	Hamatani, I. (2000). A New Recorded Species of the Genus Spurilla Bergh, 1864 from Osaka Bay, Middle Japan (Opisthobranchia, Aeolidacea）. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 59 (3): 263-265.
additional source	Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Carmona L., Lei B.R., Pola M., Gosliner T.M., Valdés Á. & Cervera J.L. 2014. Untangling the Spurilla neapolitana (Delle Chiaje, 1841) species complex: a review of the genus Spurilla Bergh, 1864 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Aeolidiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 170(1): 132–154

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Spurilla neapolitana (Delle Chiaje, 1841). 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:138722