Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Aplysiida > Superfamily Aplysioidea > Family Aplysiidae > Genus Aplysia

Aplysia parvula Mörch, 1863

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Aplysia*	Linnaeus, 1767	accepted genus name
*Laplysia*	Linnaeus, 1767	orthographic variant
*Aplysia (Aplysia)*	Linnaeus, 1767	synonym
*Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia)*	Engel, 1936	synonym
*Tethys (Aplysia)*	Linnaeus, 1767	synonym

Species group names

*Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) parvula*	Mörch, 1863	synonym; alternate representation
*Aplysia australiana*	Clessin, 1899	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: llebre de mar petita sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

English: dwarf sea hare; small sea hare sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

French: petit lièvre de mer sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

German: kleiner Seehase sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Japanese: クロヘリアメフラシ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Spanish, Castillian: liebre de mar pequeña

Literature

original description	Mörch, O. A. L. (1863). Contributions à la faune malacologique des Antilles danoises. Journal de Conchyliologie. 11(1): 21-43.
additional source	Nimbs M. J., Willan R. C. & Smith S. D. A. (2017). Is Port Stephens, eastern Australia, a global hotspot for biodiversity of Aplysiidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia)?. Molluscan Research. 37(1): 47-65.
additional source	Bebbington, A., 1977. Aplysiid species from eastern Australia with notes on the Pacific Ocean Aplysiomorpha (Gastropoda, Opistobranchia). Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 34 1: 87-147.
additional source	Branch, G. M. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg.
additional source	Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	Valdés A. (2019). Northeast Pacific benthic shelled sea slugs. Zoosymposia. 13: 242-304.
additional source	Gosliner, T. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
redescription	Thompson, T. E. (1977). Jamaican opisthobranch molluscs I. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 43: 93-140.
status source	Golestani, H.; Crocetta, F.; Padula, V.; Camacho, Y.; Langeneck, J.; Poursanidis, D.; Pola, M.; Yokeş, M. B.; Cervera, J. L.; Jung, D.-W.; Gosliner, T. M.; Araya, J. F.; Hooker, J.; Schrödl, M.; Valdés, Á. (2019). The little Aplysia is coming of age: from one species to a complex of species complexes in Aplysia parvula (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 187(2): 279-330.
status source	ICZN. (1959). Opinion 560. Protection under the Plenary Powers of the specific name "parvula" Mörch, 1863, as published in the combination "Aplysia parvula" (Class Gastropoda). Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 20 (27): 293-302.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Aplysia parvula Mörch, 1863. 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:138757