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Polycerella emertoni A. E. Verrill, 1880

Polycerella emertoni Verill, 1881 Specimens from La Goulette, Tunisia (soft bottoms 10-15 m, 19.01.2010), approximate size of extended animals 3 mm. D: egg mass, approximate size 2.5 mm.
Polycerella emertoni Verill, 1881
Specimens from La Goulette, Tunisia (soft bottoms 10-15 m, 19.01.2010), approximate size of extended animals 3 mm. D: egg mass, approximate size 2.5 mm.

140839 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140839)

accepted
Species
Polycerella comyna [sic] · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (misspelling)
Polycerella conyna Er. Marcus, 1957 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine
Verrill, A. E. (1880). Notice of recent addition to the marine Invertebrata of the northeastern coast of America, with descriptions of new genera and species and critical remarks on others. Part II - Mollusca, with notes on Annelida, Echinodermata, etc, collected by the United States Fish Commission. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 3: 356-409., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14917456
page(s): 387-388 [details] 
Note Southern New England  
Type locality Southern New England [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Polycerella emertoni A. E. Verrill, 1880. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=140839 on 2026-09-26
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Polycerella emertoni A. E. Verrill, 1880. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=140839 on 2026-09-26
Date
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Gofas, Serge
2010-09-27 07:46:00Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe
2011-10-06 00:30:25Z
changed
Rosenberg, Gary

original description Verrill, A. E. (1880). Notice of recent addition to the marine Invertebrata of the northeastern coast of America, with descriptions of new genera and species and critical remarks on others. Part II - Mollusca, with notes on Annelida, Echinodermata, etc, collected by the United States Fish Commission. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 3: 356-409., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14917456
page(s): 387-388 [details] 

original description (of Polycerella davenportii Balch, 1899) Balch, F. N. (1899). List of marine Mollusca of Coldspring Harbor, Long Island, with descriptions of one new genus and two new species of nudibranchs. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 29(7):133-162, pl. 1., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56803340
page(s): 150 [details] 

original description (of Polycerella conyna Er. Marcus, 1957) Marcus, Er. (1957). On Opisthobranchia from Brazil (2). <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Zoology).</em> 43 (292): 390-486, figs. 1-246., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1957.tb01559.x [details] Available for editors  PDF available

context source (Introduced species) Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details] Available for editors  PDF available

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details] 

additional source Abbott, R. T. (1974). <i>American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America</i>. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Furfaro, G.; Trainito, E.; Solca, M.; Mauro, A.; Mancini, E. (2025). Traveling around the Mediterranean Sea: the bryozoan <i>Amathia verticillata</i> (Delle Chiaje, 1822) together with non-indigenous and endemic overlooked nudibranchs (Mollusca, Gastropoda). <em>Marine Biology.</em> 172: 163 (20 pp.)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-025-04724-2 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Moro, L., Ocaña, Ó. & Ortea, J. (2017). Sobre la distribución de <i>Polycerella emertoni</i> Verrill, 1880, (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Polyceridae) en las costas atlánticas de África Continental, con observaciones sobre el género <i>Amathia</i> Lamouroux, 1812 (Bryozoo: Vesicularioidea), su alimento, en las islas Canarias. <em>Vieraea.</em> 45: 83-88., available online at https://doi.org/10.31939/vieraea.2017.45.05 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Occhipinti-Ambrogi, A., A. Marchini, G. Cantone, A. Castelli, C. Chimenz, M. Cormaci, C. Froglia, G. Furnari, M.C. Gambi, G. Giaccone, A. Giangrande, C. Gravil, F. Mastrototaro, C. Mazziotti, L. Orsi-Relini & S. Piraino. (2010). Alien species along the Italian coasts: an overview. <em>Biological Invasions.</em> 13(1): 215-237., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-010-9803-y [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Zenetos, A., M.E. Cinar, M.A. Pancucci-Papadopoulou, J.G. Harmelin, G. Furnari, F. Andaloro, N. Bellou, N. Streftaris & H. Zibrowius. (2005). Annotated list of marine alien species in the Mediterranean with records of the worst invasive species. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> 6 (2): 63-118., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273213810_Annotated_list_of_marine_alien_species_in_the_Mediterranean_with_records_of_the_worst_invasive_species [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
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Type locality Southern New England [details]
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To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Polycerella conyna Er. Marcus, 1957)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Polycerella davenportii Balch, 1899)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Polycerella emertoni) 
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 13 proteins) 
To PESI (from synonym Polycerella davenportii Balch, 1899)
To PESI (from synonym Polycerella comyna [sic])
To PESI 
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 010618.GP) 
To ITIS
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