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 Fionoidea > Family Eubranchidae > Genus Eubranchus

Eubranchus farrani (Alder & Hancock, 1844)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Eolis Cuvier, 1805

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Eubranchus*	Forbes, 1838	accepted genus name
*Amphorina*	Quatrefages, 1844	synonym
*Galvina*	Alder & Hancock, 1855	synonym

Species group names

*Amphorina alberti*	Quatrefages, 1844	synonym
*Amphorina farrani*	(Alder & Hancock, 1844)	synonym
*Eolidia flavescens*	Risso, 1826	synonym
*Eolis adelaidae*	W. Thompson, 1860	synonym
*Eolis andreapolis*	McIntosh, 1865	synonym
*Eolis robertianae*	M'Intosh, 1865	synonym
*Galvina flava*	Trinchese, 1879	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: gezwollen knuppelslak

Literature

additional source	Edmunds, M. & Kress, A. (1969). On the European species of Eubranchus (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 49(4): 879-912.
additional source	Kim, A. Y., Donohoo, S. A. & Gosliner, T. M. (2024). Stirring up the muck: the systematics of soft-sediment Fionidae (Nudibranchia: Aeolidina) from the tropical Indo-Pacific. PeerJ. 12: e18517: 1-55.
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.
new combination reference	Korshunova, T.; Malmberg, K.; Prkić, J.; Petani, A.; Fletcher, K.; Lundin, K.; Martynov, A. (2020). Fine-scale species delimitation: speciation in process and periodic patterns in nudibranch diversity. ZooKeys. 917: 15-50.

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Eubranchus farrani (Alder & Hancock, 1844). 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:139766