• Polybranchia Pease, W.H. 1860. Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the Sandwich Islands, Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 28: 141–148 [141].

  Type species:

   Polybranchia pellucida Pease, 1860 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

History of changes

• Polybranchia burni Medrano, S., Krug, P.J., Gosliner, T.M. Kumar, A.B., Valdes, A. 2018. Systematics of Polybranchia Pease, 1860 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Sacoglossa) based on molecular and morphological data. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society online early: 1-40.

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.469619, Neds Beach, Lord Howe Island, New South Wales.

Distribution

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14)

History of changes

• Proctonotus orientalis Kelaart, E.F. 1858. Descriptions of new and little known species of Ceylon nudibranchiate molluscs and zoophytes. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Ceylon Branch 3: 84-139 [118].
• Phyllobranchus rubicundus Bergh, 1905.
• Branchophyllum orientale varzsagamiense Baba, 1955.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [44]

Generic Combinations

• Branchophyllum orientale (Kelaart, 1858).
• Phyllobranchus orientalis (Kelaart, 1858).
• Phyllobranchillus orientalis (Kelaart, 1858).
• Polybranchia orientalis (Kelaart, 1858). —
  Jensen K.R. 2007. Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 55: 255–281
• Phyllobranchillus prasinus (Bergh, 1905).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [44]

Wägele, H., Burghardt, I., Anthes, N., Evertsen, J., Klussmann-Kolb, A. & Brodie, G. 2006. Species diversity of opisthobranch molluscs on Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 69. 33-59 [50]

History of changes

• Cyerce nigra pallens Burn, R. 1957. On some Opisthobranchia from Victoria. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(1): 11–29 [14, pl. 3, figs 8–11].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Queenscliff, VIC.

Generic Combinations

• Polybranchia pallens (Burn, 1957).

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

0–10 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. 47.3] (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 [11]

Coleman, N. 2001. 1001 Nudibranchs - Catalogue of Indo-Pacific Sea Slugs. Springwood, Queensland : Neville Coleman’s Underwater Geographic Pty Ltd 144 pp. [134] (photo)

History of changes

• Polybranchis westralis Jensen, K.R. 1993. Sacoglossa (Mollusca Opisthobranchia) from Rottnest Island and central Western Australia. pp. 207-253 in Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., Kirkman, H. & Lethbridge, R. (eds). Proceedings of the Fifth International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Albany, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum Vol. 1. [227-231].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1993. Sea Slugs of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 184 pp. [70]

History of changes