Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Pteropoda > Suborder Euthecosomata > Superfamily Cavolinioidea > Family Creseidae > Genus Creseis

Creseis acicula (Rang, 1828)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Creseis*	Rang, 1828	accepted genus name
*Cleodora (Creseis)*	Rang, 1828	synonym

Species group names

*Hyalaea aciculata*	[sic]	orthographic variant
*Cleodora (Creseis) acicula*	Rang, 1828	synonym
*Cleodora (Creseis) clava*	Rang, 1828	synonym
*Cleodora clava*	Rang, 1828	synonym
*Creseis acus*	Eschscholtz, 1829	synonym
*Creseis clava*	(Rang, 1828)	synonym
*Creseis recta*	(Gray, 1850)	synonym
*Creseis spiniformis*	Benoit, 1843	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Needle Sea Butterfly sources: Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Southern Underwater Research Group Press, 7 Blackwood Drive, Hout Bay 7806, Cape Town, South Africa.

Japanese: ウキヅノガイ

Literature

basis of record	Janssen, A. W. (2018). Notes on the systematics, morphology and biostratigraphy of holoplanktic Mollusca, 25. Once more: the correct name for the type species of the genus Creseis Rang, 1828 (Pteropoda, Euthecosomata, Creseidae). Basteria. 82 (4-6): 110-112.
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	Janssen, A. W. (1999). Euthecosomatous gastropods (Mollusca: Heterobranchia) from Buton (SE Sulawesi, Indonesia), with notes on species from Viti Levu, Fiji; systematics, biostratigraphy. Geologie en Mijnbouw. 78: 179-189.
additional source	Janssen, A. W.; Bush, S. L. & Bednaršek, N. (2019). The shelled pteropods of the northeast Pacific Ocean (Mollusca: Heterobranchia, Pteropoda). Zoosymposia. 13: 305-346.
additional source	Janssen, A. W. (1998). Holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda: Heteropoda and Thecosomata) from the Pliocene Bowden beds, Jamaica. Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology. 35 (1-4): 95-111.
additional source	Collins, R. L. (1934). A monograph of the American Tertiary pteropod mollusks. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Geology 11: 137-234.
additional source	Gosliner, T. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
additional 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.
additional source	Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974].
status source	Janssen, A. W. (2020). Notes on the systematics, morphology and biostratigraphy of holoplanktic Mollusca, 27. Comments on a paper discussing Pteropoda (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) systematics, recently (2019) published in Bollettino Malacologico. Basteria. 84 (1-3): 65-75.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Creseis acicula (Rang, 1828). 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:139034