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 Pleurobranchus

Pleurobranchus testudinarius Cantraine, 1835

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pleurobranchus*	Cuvier, 1804	accepted genus name
*Oscanius*	Leach, 1847	synonym
*Pleurobranchus (Oscanius)*	Leach, 1847	synonym
*Pleurobranchus (Susania)*	Gray, 1857	synonym
*Susania*	Gray, 1857	synonym

Species group names

*Daudebardia tarentina*	de Stefani & Pantanelli, 1879	synonym
*Pleurobranchus denotarisi*	Vérany, 1846	synonym
*Pleurobranchus mammillatus*	R. A. Philippi, 1836	synonym

Literature

original description	Cantraine, F. J. (1835). Diagnoses ou descriptions succinctes de quelques espèces nouvelles de mollusques. Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles. 2(11): 380-401.
basis of record	Goodheart J., Camacho-García Y., Padula V., Schrödl M., Cervera J.L., Gosliner T.M. & Valdés Á. (2015). Systematics and biogeography of Pleurobranchus Cuvier, 1804, sea slugs (Heterobranchia: Nudipleura: Pleurobranchidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 174: 322-362.
status source	ICZN. (1993). Opinion 1767. Pleurobranchus forskalii Ruppell & Leuckart, [1828] and P. testudinarius Cantraine, 1835 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): specific names conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 51(2): 164-165.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pleurobranchus testudinarius Cantraine, 1835. 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:140821