Aplysia sydneyensis
| Aplysia sydneyensis | |
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| Live specimen of Aplysia sydneyensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Aplysiida |
| Family: | Aplysiidae |
| Genus: | Aplysia |
| Species: | A. sydneyensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Aplysia sydneyensis G. B. Sowerby II, 1869
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| Synonyms | |
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Aplysia excavata G. B. Sowerby II, 1869 | |
Aplysia sydneyensis is a species of gastropod mollusc in the genus Aplysia, family Aplysiidae.[1]
Description
(Original description) The shell is compressed and elongate-perpendicular in form; coloration is chestnut at the median region, becoming pale horn-colored toward the margins. The apex is obtuse, terminal, slightly reflected and incurved. The dorsal margin is convex; the upper margin is straight; the outer lip is straight; the lower margin is subquadrate.[2]
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.
References
- ^ Aplysia sydneyensis G. B. Sowerby II, 1869. 8 October 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Sowerby, G.B. II (1869). Monograph of the genus Aplysia. In: Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 17, pls 1-10 and unpaginated text. London: Reeeve & co. p. sp 31. Retrieved 8 October 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Bebbington, A., 1977. Aplysiid species from eastern Australia with notes on the Pacific Ocean Aplysiomorpha (Gastropoda, Opistobranchia). Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 34 1: 87-147.
- Edgar, G.J. 1997. Australian Marine Life, the plants and animals of temperate waters. Kew, Victoria, Australia : Reed Books 544 pp.
External links
- Burn, R.F. (2006). "A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia" (PDF). Museum Victoria Science Reports. 10: 1–42.
- Petit, R.E. (2009). "George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa". Zootaxa. 2189.
- Nimbs M. J., Willan R. C. & Smith S. D. A. (2017). "Is Port Stephens, eastern Australia, a global hotspot for biodiversity of Aplysiidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia)?". Molluscan Research. 37 (1): 47–65.