Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Ringipleura > Superorder Nudipleura > Order Nudibranchia > Suborder Doridina > Infraorder Doridoidei > Superfamily Onchidoridoidea > Family Onchidorididae > Genus Acanthodoris

Acanthodoris pilosa (Abildgaard, 1789)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Acanthodoris*	J. E. Gray, 1850	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Acanthodoris citrina*	A. E. Verrill, 1879	synonym
*Acanthodoris ornata*	A. E. Verrill, 1879	synonym
*Acanthodoris pilosa var. albescens*	Bergh, 1880	synonym
*Acanthodoris pilosa var. novaezealandiae*	Bergh, 1905	synonym
*Acanthodoris pilosa var. pallida*	Bergh, 1905	synonym
*Acanthodoris pilosa var. purpurea*	Bergh, 1880	synonym
*Doris bifida*	A. E. Verrill, 1870	synonym
*Doris laevis*	J. E. Gray, 1850	synonym
*Doris nigricans*	J. Fleming, 1820	synonym
*Doris pilosa*	Abildgaard, 1789	synonym
*Doris quadrangulata*	Jeffreys, 1869	synonym
*Doris rocinela*	Leach, 1852	synonym
*Doris similis*	Alder & Hancock, 1842	synonym
*Doris stellata*	Gmelin, 1791	synonym
*Doris sublaevis*	W. Thompson, 1840	synonym
*Doris subquadrata*	Alder & Hancock, 1845	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: dunet doride sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: egelslak sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: hairy spiny doris; thorny doris sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.

French: doris épineux sources: Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.

German: gestachelte Doris; weichwarzige Sternschnecke

Literature

basis of record	Fahey S.J. & Valdés A. (2005). Review of Acanthodoris Gray, 1850 with a phylogenetic analysis of Onchidorididae Alder and Hancock, 1845 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 56(20): 213-273.
additional source	Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p.
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].
additional source	Ekimova, I. A.; Nikitenko, E.; Stanovova, M.; Schepetov, D. M.; Antokhina, T. I.; Valdés, Á. (2024). Integrative taxonomy and phylogeography of the genus Acanthodoris (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) in the Russian seas, with the description of a new genus. Zoosystematica Rossica. 33(2): 244-273.
additional source	Balch, F. N. (1909). A spring collecting trip. Notes on New England nudibranchs II. The Nautilus. 23(3): 33-38.
additional source	Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London. 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455].
additional source	Bromley, J.E.C. & J.S. Bleakney. (1985). Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report, Halifax, N.S. 24119: 366 PP.
additional source	Thomas, M. L. H. (1983). Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 64:1-306.
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
additional source	Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp.
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.
redescription	Fahey S.J. & Valdés A. (2005). Review of Acanthodoris Gray, 1850 with a phylogenetic analysis of Onchidorididae Alder and Hancock, 1845 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 56(20): 213-273.
new combination reference	Gray, J. E. (1850). [text]. In: Gray, M. E., Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp. (August) [Frontispiece (portrait of Mrs. Gray); pp. ii–iv (preface); 1–62 (explanation of plates 1–312 in Volumes 1–3); pp. 63–124 (systematic arrangement of figures); 127–219 (reprint of Gray 1847).
subsequent type designation	Fahey S.J. & Valdés A. (2005). Review of Acanthodoris Gray, 1850 with a phylogenetic analysis of Onchidorididae Alder and Hancock, 1845 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 56(20): 213-273.

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External Links

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Acanthodoris pilosa (Abildgaard, 1789). 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:140627