Species Goniobranchus epicurius (Basedow & Hedley, 1905)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hypselodoris epicuria 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 [153–154, pl. 7, figs 1–3].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Port Willunga, SA.
• Glossodoris victoriae Burn, R. 1957. On some Opisthobranchia from Victoria. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(1): 11–29 [16, pl. 3, fig. 4].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Rudman, W.B. 1987. The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: Chromodoris epicuria, C. aureopurpurea, C. annulata, C. coi, and Risbecia tryoni colour groups. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 90: 305–407 [318]

Generic Combinations

• Chromodoris epicuria (Basedow & Hedley, 1905). —
  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. [760, pls 49.1, 49.2]
  Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1993. Sea Slugs of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 184 pp. [120, species 149]
  Edgar, G.J. 1997. Australian Marine Life, the plants and animals of temperate waters. Kew, Victoria, Australia : Reed Books 544 pp. [279, photo]
  Coleman, N. 2001. 1001 Nudibranchs - Catalogue of Indo-Pacific Sea Slugs. Springwood, Queensland : Neville Coleman’s Underwater Geographic Pty Ltd 144 pp. [70, 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 [22]
• Goniobranchus epicuria (Basedow & Hedley, 1905).

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

0–15 m.

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

History of changes