Species Austraeolis ornata (Angas, 1864)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Flabellina ornata Angas, G.F. 1864. Description d'espèces nouvelles appartenant à plusieurs genres de Mollusques nudibranches des environs de Port Jackson, (Nouvelles-Galles du Sud), accompagnée de dessins faits d'après nature. Journal de Conchyliologie 12: 43–70 [67–68, pl. 6, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Port Jackson, NSW.
• Rizzolia australis Bergh, L.S.R. 1884. Report on the Nudibranchiata. Challenger Reports, Zoology 10(26): 1–154 [27, pl. 9, fig. 1–5].
• Austraeolis westralis Burn, R. 1966. Descriptions of Australian Eolidacea (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) 3. The genera Tularia, Embletonia and Austraeolis with a note on Tergipes pauculas Burn 1962. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(9): 25–35 [31, fig. 11–14].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42 [31]

Generic Combinations

• Austraeolis ornata (Angas, 1864).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

0–100 m.

General References

Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42

Coleman, N. 2001. 1001 Nudibranchs - Catalogue of Indo-Pacific Sea Slugs. Springwood, Queensland : Neville Coleman’s Underwater Geographic Pty Ltd 144 pp. [110] (photo)

Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1993. Sea Slugs of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 184 pp. [157, 159] (photo:species 206)

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