Acanthodoris pilosa

Acanthodoris pilosa
Acanthodoris pilosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Euctenidiacea clade Doridacea
Superfamily:	Onchidoridoidea
Family:	Onchidorididae
Genus:	Acanthodoris
Species:	A. hudsoni
Binomial name
Acanthodoris pilosa Abildgaard in O. F. Müller, 1789[1][2]
Synonyms
Acanthodoris citrina (Verrill, 1879) Acanthodoris ornata (Verrill, 1879) Acanthodoris pilosa pilosa (Abildgaard, 1789) Acanthodoris quadrangulata (Alder & Hancock) Doris bifida (Verrill, 1870) Doris flemingii (Forbes, 1838) Doris laevis (Müller, 1776) Doris nigricans (Fleming, 1828) Doris quadrangulata (Jeffreys, 1869) Doris rocinela (Leach in Gray, 1852) Doris similis (Alder & Hancock, 1842) Doris stellata (Gmelin, 1791) Doris sublaevis (Thompson, 1840) Doris subquadrata (Alder & Hancock, 1845) Doris vocinella (Leach, 1847)

Acanthodoris pilosa is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidorididae.

Distribution

This species was described from Norway. It has been reported from the North Atlantic Ocean on both the American and European coasts.^[3][4] Specimens from Cobscook Bay, Washington County, Maine and Murles Point, County Donegal, Ireland have been sequenced for the 16S ribosomal RNA, Histone H3 and CO1 genes.^[5][6] Reports of this species from Japan^[7] must be considered doubtful in the light of recent molecular phylogeny results which show that at least some of the animals from the North Pacific are Acanthodoris atrogriseata.^[5]

References

1. Abildgaard, Petrus Christianus. (1789) [In]: O. F. Muller. Zoologia Danica, etc., Vol. 39(3): 1-71, pls. 81-120.
2. Muller, O. F. (1789). Zoologica Danica sev animalium Daniae et Norvegiae rariorum ac minus rotorum descriptiones et historia, ed. 3, vol. 3: 1-71, pls 81-120.
3. Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Acanthodoris pilosa (Abildgaard in O F Müller, 1789). [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. Accessed on 2016-1-13
4. Rudman, W.B., 1999 (August 22) Acanthodoris pilosa (Abildgaard in Muller, 1789). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
5. Hallas, JM and Gosliner, TM. (2015) Family Matters: the first molecular phylogeny of the Onchidorididae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 88: 16-27.
6. Hallas, J.M., Simison, W.B. & Gosliner, T.M. (2016) Dating and biogeographical patterns in the sea slug genus Acanthodoris Gray, 1850 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 97: 19-31.
7. Baba, K. (1935) The fauna of Akkeshi Bay. I. Opisthobranchia. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Imperial University, series 6, Zoology 4(3):115-125, pls. 7-8; page 119, pl. 7, figs 8-10.