Genus Pleurobranchus Cuvier, 1804

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pleurobranchus Cuvier, G. 1804. Mémoire sur la Phyllidie et sur le Pleurobranche, deux nouveaux genres de mollusques de l'ordre des gastéropodes, et voisins des patelles et des oscabrions, dont l'un est nu et dont l'autre porte une coquille cachée. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 5(28): 266–276 [275].

  Type species:

   Pleurobranchus peronii Cuvier, 1804 by original designation.

Introduction

Willan (2005) identified Pleurobranchus cf. forskalii Rüppell & Leuckart, 1828 which may represent an undescribed species.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

General References

Willan, R.C. 2005. The molluscan fauna from the emergent reefs of the northernmost Sahul Shelf, Timor Sea — Ashmore, Cartier and Hibernia Reefs; biodiversity and zoogeography. pp. 51-81 in Russell, B.C. et al. (eds). Understanding the Cultural and Natural Heritage values and Management Challenges of the Ashmore Region. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory Suppl. 1: 248 pp. [75]

History of changes