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Aplysia  Linnaeus, 1767
Taxonomic Serial No.: 78029

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2017   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumSpiralia   
             PhylumMollusca  – mollusques, molusco, molluscs, mollusks  
                ClassGastropoda Cuvier, 1797 – gastropods, slugs, snails, escargots, gastéropodes, limaces, caracol, caramujo, lesma  
                   SubclassOrthogastropoda   
                      InfraclassHeterobranchia   
                         OrderAplysiida   
                            SuperfamilyAplysioidea Lamarck, 1809  
                               FamilyAplysiidae Lamarck, 1809  
                                  GenusAplysia Linnaeus, 1767  
    Direct Children:  
                                     SpeciesAplysia brasiliana Rang, 1828 – sooty seahare, mottled seahare 
                                     SpeciesAplysia californica J. G. Cooper, 1863 – California seahare 
                                     SpeciesAplysia cervina (Dall and Simpson, 1901)  
                                     SpeciesAplysia dactylomela Rang, 1828 – spotted seahare 
                                     SpeciesAplysia depilans Gmelin, 1791  
                                     SpeciesAplysia donca Ev. Marcus and Er. Marcus, 1960  
                                     SpeciesAplysia fasciata Poiret, 1798  
                                     SpeciesAplysia geographica (A. Adams and Reeve, 1850)  
                                     SpeciesAplysia juliana Quoy and Gaimard, 1832 – walking seahare 
                                     SpeciesAplysia morio (A. E. Verrill, 1901) – atlantic black seahare, sooty seahare 
                                     SpeciesAplysia parvula Morch, 1863 – pygmy seahare 
                                     SpeciesAplysia punctata   
                                     SpeciesAplysia reticulopoda Beeman, 1960 – net-foot seahare 
                                     SpeciesAplysia vaccaria Winkler, 1955 – California black seahare 
       

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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Aplysia   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Bouchet, Philippe, Jean-Pierre Rocroi, Bernhard Hasdorf, Andrzej Kaim, Yasunori Kano, et al.   
  Publication Date: 2017   
  Article/Chapter Title: Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of Gastropod and Monoplacophoran Families   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Malacologia, vol. 61, no. 1-2   
  Page(s): 1-526   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0076-2997   
  Notes: doi: 10.4002/040.061.0201   
  Reference for: Aplysia   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al.   
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26   
  Page(s): 526   
  Publisher: American Fisheries Society   
  Publication Place: Bethesda, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-888569-01-8, 0097-0638  
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