Species Dendrodoris arborescens (Collingwood, 1881)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Doridopsis arborescens Collingwood, C. 1881. On some new species of nudibranchiate mollusca from the eastern seas. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 2: 123–140 [134, pl. 10, fig. 15–17].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Slut Island, Haitan Straits, China.
• Dendrodoris fumata auctt. non Rüppell & Leuckart, 0.
• Dendrodoris nigra auctt. non Stimpson, 1855.

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

Generic Combinations

• Dendrodoris arborescens (Collingwood, 1881).

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

All Australian states, wide spread Indo-Pacific: 0–10 m.

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

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. [87] (as Dendrodoris nigra; photo: AMPI 61)

Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1993. Sea Slugs of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 184 pp. [141] (as Dendrodoris nigra; photo: species 182)

History of changes