Species Verconia varians (Pease, 1871)

• Chromodoris varians Pease, W.H. 1871. Descriptions of new nudibranchiate Mollusca inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology 7: 11-20 [19].
• Chromodoris gloriosa Bergh, 1874.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [114]
• Johnson, R.F. & Gosliner, T.M. 2012. Traditional Taxonomic Groupings Mask Evolutionary History: A Molecular Phylogeny and New Classification of the Chromodorid Nudibranchs. PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) 7(4): e33479 [7] (transferred from previous position in Noumea now recognised as a junior synonym of Verconia)

Generic Combinations

• Noumea varians (Pease, 1871).
• Verconia varians (Pease, 1871).

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. [114]

History of changes