Species Ceratosoma amoenum (Cheeseman, 1886)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chromodoris amoena Cheeseman, T.F. 1886. On a new species of Chromodoris. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 18: 137 [137].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Whangaroa Harbour, New Zealand.
• Chromodoris figurata Bergh, 1905.
• Chromodoris atopa Bergh, 1905.

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 [171-172]

Generic Combinations

• Ceratosoma amoena (Chesseman, 1886). —
  Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1993. Sea Slugs of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 184 pp. [129, species 163]
  Edgar, G.J. 1997. Australian Marine Life, the plants and animals of temperate waters. Kew, Victoria, Australia : Reed Books 544 pp. [278, photo]
• Ceratosoma amoenum (Chesseman, 1886). —
  Coleman, N. 2001. 1001 Nudibranchs - Catalogue of Indo-Pacific Sea Slugs. Springwood, Queensland : Neville Coleman’s Underwater Geographic Pty Ltd 144 pp. [64-5, 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 [21]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

3–20 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. 48.5] (as Chromodoris amoena photo)

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