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Pleurobranchus wirtzi Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2014
828317 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:828317)
unaccepted (probable synonym)
Species
marine
Ortea J., Moro L. & Caballer M. (2014). Contribución al estudio de la familia Pleurobranchidae Gray, 1827 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) en la Macaronesia y las islas Galápagos. <em>Vieraea.</em> 42: 117-148.
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Taxonomy Ortea et al. (2014) defend that Pleurobranchus reticulatus Rang, 1832, from the islands of the Gulf of Guinea,...
Taxonomy Ortea et al. (2014) defend that Pleurobranchus reticulatus Rang, 1832, from the islands of the Gulf of Guinea, Pleurobranchus garciagomezi Cervera, Cattaneo-Vietti & Edmunds, 1996 from the Cape Verde Islands and their own Pleurobranchus wirtzi Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2014 from the Canaries, Madeira and the Azores, are different species. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pleurobranchus wirtzi Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2014. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=828317 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Ortea J., Moro L. & Caballer M. (2014). Contribución al estudio de la familia Pleurobranchidae Gray, 1827 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) en la Macaronesia y las islas Galápagos. <em>Vieraea.</em> 42: 117-148.
page(s): 125, pls 2, 3D, fig. 4 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 125, pls 2, 3D, fig. 4 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Goodheart J., Camacho-García Y., Padula V., Schrödl M., Cervera J.L., Gosliner T.M. & Valdés Á. (2015). Systematics and biogeography of <i>Pleurobranchus</i> Cuvier, 1804 sea slugs (Heterobranchus: Nudipleura: Pleurobranchidae). Addendum. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 174: 649. [details]





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Taxonomy Ortea et al. (2014) defend that Pleurobranchus reticulatus Rang, 1832, from the islands of the Gulf of Guinea, Pleurobranchus garciagomezi Cervera, Cattaneo-Vietti & Edmunds, 1996 from the Cape Verde Islands and their own Pleurobranchus wirtzi Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2014 from the Canaries, Madeira and the Azores, are different species. [details]