Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Ringipleura > Superorder Nudipleura > Order Nudibranchia > Suborder Cladobranchia > Superfamily Fionoidea > Family Eubranchidae

Eubranchus Forbes, 1838

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Amphorina*	Quatrefages, 1844	synonym
*Galvina*	Alder & Hancock, 1855	synonym

Children

Eubranchus amazighi Tamsouri, Carmona, Moukrim & Cervera, 2015
Eubranchus arci Ortea, 1981
Eubranchus capellinii (Trinchese, 1879)
Eubranchus exiguus (Alder & Hancock, 1848)
Eubranchus farrani (Alder & Hancock, 1844)
Eubranchus leopoldoi Caballer, Ortea & Espinosa, 2001
Eubranchus linensis García-Gómez, Cervera & F. J. García, 1990
Eubranchus odhneri (Derjugin & Gurjanova, 1926)
Eubranchus pallidus (Alder & Hancock, 1842)
Eubranchus prietoi Llera & Ortea, 1981
Eubranchus rupium (Møller, 1842)
Eubranchus scintillans Grishina, Schepetov & Ekimova, 2022
Eubranchus telesforoi Ortea, Caballer & Bacallado, 2002
Eubranchus tricolor Forbes, 1838
Eubranchus vascoi Ortea, Caballer & Moro, 2002
Eubranchus viriola (Korshunova, Malmberg, Prkić, Petani, Fletcher, Lundin & Martynov, 2020)
Eubranchus vittatus (Alder & Hancock, 1842)

Literature

original description	Forbes, E. (1838). Malacologia Monensis: a catalogue of the Mollusca inhabiting the Isle of Man and the neighbouring sea. Edinburgh: J. Carfrae and son pp. XII + 63 + 3 pl.
additional source	Edmunds, M. & Kress, A. (1969). On the European species of Eubranchus (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 49(4): 879-912.
additional source	Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Picton, B. (2017). Ontogeny as an important part of integrative taxonomy in tergipedid aeolidaceans (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with a description of a new genus and species from the Barents Sea. Zootaxa. 4324(1): 1.
additional source	Ortea J. & Caballer M. 2002. Nuevos datos sobre el género Eubranchus Forbes, 1838 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) en aguas templadas del Atlántico Oeste. New data about the genus Eubranchus Forbes, 1838 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) in warm waters of West Atlantic. Avicennia 15: 77-90
status source	ICZN. (1966). Opinion 774. Eubranchus Forbes, 1838 added to the Official List with suppression under the Plenary Powers of several nomina dubia. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 23(1): 87-90.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Eubranchus Forbes, 1838. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137954