Species Rostanga crawfordi (Burn, 1969)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Discodoris crawfordi Burn, R. 1969. A memorial report on the Tom Crawford collection of Victorian Opisthobranchia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(12): 64–106 [84–85, figs 19–24].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F26920, South Channel, Port Phillip, VIC, 18 m.
  Paratype(s) WAM S13890, Cottesloe, Perth, Western Australia.
• Discodoris turia Burn, R. 1969. A memorial report on the Tom Crawford collection of Victorian Opisthobranchia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(12): 64–106.

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F27121, Warratah Bay, Victoria.
• Rostanga australis Rudman, W.B. & Avern, G.J. 1989. The genus Rostanga Bergh 1879 (Nudibranchia: Dorididae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 96: 281–338 [312].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.154817, Portsea Pier, Port Phillip Bay, VIC.
  Paratype(s) AM C.149545 19 specimens, same data as holotype.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dayrat, B. 2010. A monographic revision of basal discodorid sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Doridina). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 61: 1-403 [Date published March 31] [187]

Generic Combinations

• Rostanga crawfordi (Burn, 1969). —
  Dayrat, B. 2010. A monographic revision of basal discodorid sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Doridina). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 61: 1-403 [Date published March 31] [38, 187, figs 205-208] (new combination)

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Rostanga arbuta (Angas, 1864) [misidentification]. —
  Burn, R. 1966. Opisthobranchia. Port Phillip Survey 1957-1963. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 27: 265–288 [273]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

5–30 m.

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42 [24] (as Discodoris crawfordi Burn, 1969)

Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1993. Sea Slugs of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 184 pp. [99] (as Discodoris cf. crawfordi photo: species 116)

History of changes