Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Ringipleura > Superorder Nudipleura > Order Pleurobranchida > Superfamily Pleurobranchoidea > Family Pleurobranchidae > Genus Berthellina

Berthellina edwardsii (Vayssière, 1897)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Berthella Blainville, 1824

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Berthellina*	Gardiner, 1936	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Berthella saidensis*	O'Donoghue, 1929	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: rode naaktslak

English: peach seaslug sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

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

Portuguese: lesma-pêssego sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Spanish, Castillian: caracol melocotón

Literature

basis of record	Cervera J.L., Calado G., Gavaia C., Malaquias M.A.E., Templado J., Ballesteros M., García-Gómez J.C. & Megina C. (2004). An annotated and updated checklist of the opisthobranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Spain and Portugal (including islands and archipelagos). Boletín. Instituto Español de Oceanografía : 20(1-4): 122 pp.
redescription	Ortea J., Moro L. & Caballer M. (2014). Contribución al estudio de la familia Pleurobranchidae Gray, 1827 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) en la Macaronesia y las islas Galápagos. Vieraea. 42: 117-148.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Berthellina edwardsii (Vayssière, 1897). 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:181221