Genus Halgerda Bergh, 1880

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halgerda Bergh, L.S.R. 1880. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der japanischen Nudibranchien. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 30: 155-200 [190].

  Type species:

   Halgerda formosa Bergh, 1880 by monotypy.
• Dictyodoris Bergh, 1880 [in Semper, Reis. Philipp., 2, Bd. ii, Suppl. Heft 1: 75].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Valdés, A. & Gosliner, T.M. 2001. Systematics and phylogeny of the caryphyllidia-bearing dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia) with descriptions of a new genus and four new species from Indo-Pacific deep waters. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133: 103–198 [145]

 

Introduction

Several undescribed species may be present based on collected specimens, including Halgerda aff. carlsoni Rudman, 1978 of Marshall and Willan (1999), Halgerda cf. carlsoni of Wells and Bryce (1993), Halgerda cf. graphica 1 of Coleman (2008), Halgerda cf. graphica 2 of Rudman (2000), and Halgerda cf. willeyi of Coleman (2008).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Caledonia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

General References

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

Coleman, N. 2008. Nudibranchs Encyclopedia. Queensland : Neville Coleman's Underwater Geographic 416 pp.

Eliot, C.N.E. 1903. On some nudibranchs from East Africa and Zanzibar: Part 3. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2: 354-385 [372]

Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [76-77]

Rudman, W.B. 2000. Halgerda cf. graphica. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=halgcfgr.

Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1993. Sea Slugs of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 184 pp. [105]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Dec-2018	HETEROBRANCHIA	02-May-2022	MODIFIED
30-Nov-2011	OPISTHOBRANCHIA	30-Nov-2011	MOVED	Dr Robin Wilson
		24-Mar-2011	(import)