Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Cephalaspidea > Superfamily Philinoidea > Family Aglajidae > Genus Chelidonura

Chelidonura orchidaea Perrone, 1990

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Chelidonura*	A. Adams, 1850	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Perrone (1990). Una nuova specie di Aglajidae dal fondo batiale del Golfo di Taranto: Chelidonura orchidaea nov. sp. (Opisthobranchia: Philinoidea).. Bollettino Malacologico 26(5-9): 105-112
additional source	Ortea J., Moro L. & Espinosa J. (2007 ["2006"]) Descripción de dos nuevas especies de Philinopsis Pease, 1860 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia: Cephalaspidea) de Cuba y Bahamas con comentarios sobre las especies atlánticas del género. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 18(3-4): 33-52. [Nominal issue for 2006; published August 2007]
status source	Zamora-Silva A. & Malaquias M.A.E. (2018 [nomenclatural availability: 2017]). Molecular phylogeny of the Aglajidae head-shield sea slugs (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea): new evolutionary lineages revealed and proposal of a new classification. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183(1): 1-51.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Chelidonura orchidaea Perrone, 1990. 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:138731