North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Thecacera pennigera (Montagu, 1813)

AphiaID

140840 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140840)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Thecacera J. Fleming, 1828

Original name

Doris pennigera Montagu, 1813

Synonymised names

Doris pennigera Montagu, 1813 · unaccepted

Thecacera lamellata Barnard, 1933 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Thecacera maculata Eliot, 1905 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Doris pennigera Montagu, 1813) Montagu, G. (1813). Descriptions of several new or rare animals, principally marine, discovered on the south coast of Devonshire. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 11(1): 1–26, pls. 1–5., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/756542
page(s): 17, pl. 4 fig. 5 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Thecacera pennigera (Montagu, 1813). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://marbef.org//marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140840 on 2026-07-15

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Thecacera pennigera (Montagu, 1813). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=140840 on 2026-07-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2015-03-25 16:01:44Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2020-04-20 20:09:38Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

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original description (of Doris pennigera Montagu, 1813) Montagu, G. (1813). Descriptions of several new or rare animals, principally marine, discovered on the south coast of Devonshire. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 11(1): 1–26, pls. 1–5., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/756542
page(s): 17, pl. 4 fig. 5 [details]

original description (of Thecacera lamellata Barnard, 1933) Barnard, K. H. (1933). Description of a new species of Thecacera. Journal of Conchology. 19: 294-295., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/63325672
page(s): 294 [details]

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. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]

additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]

additional source Gosliner, T. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004631496
page(s): 95. [details]

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors