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 reticulatus Rang, 1832

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

*Pleurobranchus garciagomezi*	Cervera, Cattaneo-Vietti & Edmunds, 1996	synonym
*Pleurobranchus wirtzi*	Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2014	synonym

Literature

original description	Rang, [S.]. (1832). Pleurobranche. Pleurobranchus, Cuvier. P. réticulé. P. reticulatus Rang. Magasin de Zoologie. 2: Classe V, Planche 1 (with unpaginated text).
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.
additional source	Neves, R., Cervera, J.L. & Calado, G. (2007). Redescription of the tropical west African pleurobranchid Pleurobranchus reticulatus Rang, 1832 (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia). Journal of Conchology. 35: 265-269.
additional source	Alvim J. & Pimenta A.D. (2016). Comparative morphology and redescription of Pleurobranchus species (Gastropoda, Pleurobranchoidea) from Brazil. Zoological Studies. 55: 15.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pleurobranchus reticulatus Rang, 1832. 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:849350