Species Sacoproteus smaragdinus (Baba, 1949)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stiliger smaragdinus Baba, K. 1949. Opisthobranchia of Sagami Bay collected by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan. Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten 194 pp. [32, 129].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, off Sajima, Sagami Bay, Japan, 16 m.

Generic Combinations

• Sacoproteus smaragdinus (Baba, 1949). —
  Krug, P.J, Wong, N.L.W.S., Medina, M.R, Gosliner, T.M. & Valdes, A.A. 2018. Cryptic speciation yields remarkable mimics: a new genus of sea slugs that masquerade as toxic algae (Caulerpa spp.). Zoologica Scripta 47: 699-713

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand; tropical and temperate 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 [12]

Coleman, N. 2001. 1001 Nudibranchs - Catalogue of Indo-Pacific Sea Slugs. Springwood, Queensland : Neville Coleman’s Underwater Geographic Pty Ltd 144 pp. [133] (photo)

Edgar, G.J. 1997. Australian Marine Life, the plants and animals of temperate waters. Kew, Victoria, Australia : Reed Books 544 pp. [275] (photo)

Vafiadis, P. 1999. Intertidal sighting of Stiliger smaragdinus Baba, 1949 - an uncommon mollusc. Victorian Naturalist 116(4): 118– [118] (photo)

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