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 Baeolidia

Baeolidia major Eliot, 1903

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Baeolidia*	Bergh, 1888	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Brown-headed Anemone Eater

Literature

original description	Eliot, C. N. E. (1903). On some nudibranchs from east Africa and Zanzibar, part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1: 250-257.
source of synonymy	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.
status 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. Baeolidia major Eliot, 1903. 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:730674