Genus Glossodoris Ehrenberg, 1831

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• Glossodoris Ehrenberg, C.G. 1831. [1828-1831] Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones animalium evertebratorum sepositis insectis quae ex itinere per Africam Borealem et Asiam Occidentalem - novae aut illustratae redierunt. Decas 1 Mollusca. Pages unnumbered.

  Type species:

   Glossodoris xantholeuca (= Doris pallida Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830) by subsequent designation, see Rudman, W.B. 1986. The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: the genus Glossodoris Ehrenbergh (=Casella H. & A. Adams). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 86: 101-184.
• Casella H. & A. Adams, 1858.
• Rosodoris Pruvot-Fol 1954. Étude d'une petite collection d'opisthobranches d'Océanie française. Journal de Conchyliologie 94: 3-30 [23].

  Type species:

   Rosodoris hikuerensis Pruvot-Fol, 1954 by original designation.
• Chromolaichma Bertsch, H. 1977. The Chromodoridinae nudibranchs from the Pacific coast of America. Part 1. Investigative methods and supraspecific taxonomy. The Veliger 20: 107–118 [113].

  Type species:

   Casella sedna Marcus & Marcus,, 1967 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Rudman, W.B. 1986. The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: the genus Glossodoris Ehrenbergh (=Casella H. & A. Adams). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 86: 101-184 [179]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

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