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 Dendronotidae > Genus Dendronotus

Dendronotus velifer G. O. Sars, 1878

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dendronotus*	Alder & Hancock, 1845	accepted genus name
*Amphitrite*	Ascanius, 1774	junior homonym

Literature

original description	Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII.
status source	Lundin K., Korshunova T., Malmberg K. & Martynov A. (2017). Intersection of historical museum collections and modern systematics: a relict population of the Arctic nudibranch Dendronotus velifer G.O. Sars, 1878 in a Swedish fjord. Contributions to Zoology. 86(4): 303-318.
subsequent type designation	Lundin K., Korshunova T., Malmberg K. & Martynov A. (2017). Intersection of historical museum collections and modern systematics: a relict population of the Arctic nudibranch Dendronotus velifer G.O. Sars, 1878 in a Swedish fjord. Contributions to Zoology. 86(4): 303-318.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dendronotus velifer G. O. Sars, 1878. 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:748384