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 Aeolidioidea > Family Aeolidiidae > Genus Spurilla

Spurilla braziliana MacFarland, 1909

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Spurilla*	Bergh, 1864	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	MacFarland, F. M. (1909). The opisthobranchiate Mollusca of the Branner-Agassiz expedition to Brazil. Leland Stanford Junior University Publications, University series nº 2, pp 1–104, pl. 1-19. Stanford University.
basis of record	Carmona, L., Pola, M., Gosliner, T.M. & Cervera, J.L. (2013). A tale that morphology fails to tell: A molecular phylogeny of Aeolidiidae (Aeolidida, Nudibranchia, Gastropoda). PLoS ONE. 8(5): e63000.
additional source	Carmona L., Lei B.R., Pola M., Gosliner T.M., Valdés Á. & Cervera J.L. 2014. Untangling the Spurilla neapolitana (Delle Chiaje, 1841) species complex: a review of the genus Spurilla Bergh, 1864 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Aeolidiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 170(1): 132–154

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Spurilla braziliana MacFarland, 1909. 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:730440