Species Chelidonura hirundinina (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bulla hirundinina Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1833. Voyages de decouvertes de l'Astrolabe execute par ordre du Roi pendant les annes 1826-1829 sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie 2. Paris : J. Tastu pp. 321-686. [367-369].
• Hirundinella hirundinina Gray, 1847.
• Chelidonura adamsi Angas, 1867.
• Chelidonura philinopsis Eliot, 1903.
• Chelidonura hirundinina varzelegans Bergh, 1900.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [20] (synonyms follow this publication)
• Zamora-Silva, A. & Malaquais, M.A.E. 2017. Molecular phylogeny of the Aglajidae head-shield sea slugs (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea): new evolutionary lineages revealed and proposal of a new classification. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2017 XX: 1-51 [29]

Generic Combinations

• Chelidonura hirundinina (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833).

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [19-20]

Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1993. Sea Slugs of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 184 pp. [34]

History of changes