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 Dendronotoidea > Family Scyllaeidae > Genus Scyllaea

Scyllaea fulva Quoy & Gaimard, 1824

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Scyllaea*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Scyllaea quoyi*	Gray, 1850	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Frilled Grassdragon

Literature

original description	Quoy, J.R.C. & J.P. Gaimard. (1824-1826). Zoologie. In: L. de Freycinet (ed.), Voyage au tour du monde fait par ordre du roi, sur les corvettes de S. M: l'Uranie et la Physicienne pendant les années 1817 à 1820. iv + 712 pp. [pp. 1-328, 1824; 329-616, 1825; 617-664, 1826].
additional source	Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Southern Underwater Research Group Press, 7 Blackwood Drive, Hout Bay 7806, Cape Town, South Africa.
status source	Pola M., Camacho-Garcia Y.E. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Molecular data illuminate cryptic nudibranch species: the evolution of the Scyllaeidae (Nudibranchia: Dendronotina) with a revision of Notobryon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165: 311–336.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Scyllaea fulva Quoy & Gaimard, 1824. 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:606494