Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Opisthobranchia > Order Nudibranchia > Suborder Dexiarchia > Infraorder Aeolidida > Superfamily Fionoidea > Family Tergipedidae > Genus Tergipes

Tergipes tergipes (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tergipes*	Cuvier, 1805	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Limax tergipes*	Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775	basionym
*Aeolis neglecta*	Lovén, 1846	synonym
*Eolidia despecta*	Johnston, 1835	synonym
*Limax tergipes*	Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775	synonym
*Tergipes lacinulatus*	de Blainville, 1824	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: slanke knotsslak sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

English: Johnston's balloon eolis

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
additional source	Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
additional source	Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324.
additional source	Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.
additional source	ITIS database

Taxon found in 22 publications.

Genbank

Link to Genbank

Taxonomy

CLEMAM
WoRMS

External Links

Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Tergipes tergipes (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141641