Species Ceratosoma brevicaudatum Abraham, 1876

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ceratosoma brevicaudatum Abraham, P.S. 1876. Notes on some genera of nudibranchiate Mollusca, with notices of a new genus and some hitherto undescribed species in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 18: 132–146 [142–143, pl. 8, fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Abrolhos Islands, WA.
• Ceratosoma adelaidae Basedow, H. & Hedley, C. 1905. South Australian nudibranchs, and an enumeration of the known Australian species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 29: 134–160 [156, pl. 10, fig. 3–4].
• Ceratosoma oblongum Abraham, 1876.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Rudman, W.B. 1988. The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: the genus Ceratosoma J. E. Gray. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93: 133–185 [165]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

0–120 m.

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Burn, R. 1989. Opisthobranchs (Subclass Opisthobranchia). In, Shepherd, S.A. & Thomas, I.M (eds). Marine Invertebrates of Southern Australia. Part II. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printing Division. [pl. 50.5] (photo)

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. [65] (photo)

Edgar, G.J. 1997. Australian Marine Life, the plants and animals of temperate waters. Kew, Victoria, Australia : Reed Books 544 pp. [279] (photo)

Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1993. Sea Slugs of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 184 pp. [129] (photo: species 164)

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