Species Tayuva lilacina (Gould, 1852)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Doris lilacina Gould, A.A. 1852. Mollusca and shells. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. 12: 1-510 [297-298, pl. 22, fig. 392 a, b].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown type material probably lost, Honolulu, Ohau, Sanwich Islands [Hawaii].

  Type locality references:

  Dayrat, B. 2010. A monographic revision of basal discodorid sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Doridina). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 61: 1-403 [Date published March 31] [95].
• Discodoris palma Allan, J.K. 1933. Opisthobranchs from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 18(9): 443–450 [448-449, pl. 56, figs 11-12].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C154686, Sydney, Cape Banks Cruwee (Pussycat) Bay, NSW, Australia [34°00'S, 151°14.6'E].
• Tayuva ketos juva Marcus, E. & Marcus, E. 1970. Opisthobranch Mollusks from the Southern Tropical Pacific. Pacific Science 24: 155-179 [166-167, figs 31-32].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 576430, Rurutu, Tubuai Islands, Pacific Ocean.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dayrat, B. 2010. A monographic revision of basal discodorid sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Doridina). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 61: 1-403 [Date published March 31] [94-95]

Generic Combinations

• Discodoris lilacina (Gould, 1852). —
  Ono, A. 1999. Opisthobranchs of Kerama Islands. Tokyo, Japan : TBS-Britannica xlviii, 1173 pp. [104, fig. 167]
  Coleman, N. 2001. 1001 Nudibranchs - Catalogue of Indo-Pacific Sea Slugs. Springwood, Queensland : Neville Coleman’s Underwater Geographic Pty Ltd 144 pp. [56, photo]
• Tayuva lilacina (Gould, 1852). —
  Dayrat, B. & Gosliner, T.M. 2005. Metaphyly and species names: a case study in Discodorididae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Euthyneura, Nudibranchia). Zoologica Scripta 34: 199-224 [202-203, 209, 223]
  Dayrat, B. 2010. A monographic revision of basal discodorid sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Doridina). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 61: 1-403 [Date published March 31] [94]

Introduction

It is likely that this cosmopolitan species represents a complex of species but in the absence of useful anatomical features it is currently recognised as the one widely distributed species (Dayrat 2010). Dayrat (2010) presented Tayuva lilacina in four sections based on geographic distribution.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Allan, J.K. 1947. Nudibranchia from the Clarence River Heads, north coast, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21(8): 433–463 [456-457]

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [222, fig. 5]

Dayrat, B. 2010. A monographic revision of basal discodorid sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Doridina). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 61: 1-403 [Date published March 31] [78, 94]

Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. 2007. Nudibranchs of the world. Frankfurt : IKAN-Unterwasserarchiv. [249]

Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [74] (as Discodoris palma Allan, 1933)

Willan, R.C. & Coleman, N. 1984. Nudibranchs of Australasia. Caringbah, New South Wales : Australasian Marine Photographic Index 56 pp. [36] (as Discodoris palma Allan, 1933)

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