CaRMS taxon details
Acanthodoris pilosa (Abildgaard, 1789)
140627 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140627)
accepted
Species
Acanthodoris subquadrata (Alder & Hancock, 1845) · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Müller O. F. (1789). Zoologia Danica seu animalium Daniae et Norvegiae rariorum ac minus notorum descriptiones et historia. Volumen tertium: pp. [1-2], 1-71, pls. 81-120. Havniae [Copenhague], N. Möller., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PPN=PPN614794331
page(s): 7, pl. 85 fig. 5-8 [details]
page(s): 7, pl. 85 fig. 5-8 [details]
Type locality contained in Maine
type locality contained in Maine [details]
Distribution Arctic Seas to Ocean City, Maryland
Distribution Bay of Fundy shore of Nova Scotia to Virginia
Distribution Arctic Seas to Ocean City, Maryland [details]
Distribution Bay of Fundy shore of Nova Scotia to Virginia
Distribution Bay of Fundy shore of Nova Scotia to Virginia [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Acanthodoris pilosa (Abildgaard, 1789). Accessed through: Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2024) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140627 on 2025-04-09
Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Acanthodoris pilosa (Abildgaard, 1789). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140627 on 2025-04-09
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(of ) Müller O. F. (1789). Zoologia Danica seu animalium Daniae et Norvegiae rariorum ac minus notorum descriptiones et historia. Volumen tertium: pp. [1-2], 1-71, pls. 81-120. Havniae [Copenhague], N. Möller., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PPN=PPN614794331
page(s): 7, pl. 85 fig. 5-8 [details]
context source (Schelde) Maris, T., O. Beauchard, S. Van Damme, E. Van den Bergh, S. Wijnhoven & P. Meire. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. [Reference matrices and Ecotope areas Annex to the Evaluation methodology Scheldt estuary Study on “Ecotope areas and intactness index”. <em>Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke.</em> 35 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Fahey S.J. & Valdés A. (2005). Review of <i>Acanthodoris</i> Gray, 1850 with a phylogenetic analysis of Onchidorididae Alder and Hancock, 1845 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 56(20): 213-273., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/scipubs/pdfs/v56/proccas_v56_n20.pdf [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. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. <i>American Fisheries Society Special Publication</i>, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Bromley, J.E.C. & J.S. Bleakney. (1985). Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. <em>National Research Council of Canada Report, Halifax, N.S.</em> 24119: 366 PP. [details]
additional source Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.</em> 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
additional source Thomas, M. L. H. (1983). Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 64:1-306. [details] Available for editors
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 Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors
additional source Balch, F. N. (1909). A spring collecting trip. Notes on New England nudibranchs II. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 23(3): 33-38., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5314618
page(s): 36 [details]
additional source Ekimova, I. A.; Nikitenko, E.; Stanovova, M.; Schepetov, D. M.; Antokhina, T. I.; Valdés, Á. (2024). Integrative taxonomy and phylogeography of the genus Acanthodoris (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) in the Russian seas, with the description of a new genus. <em>Zoosystematica Rossica.</em> 33(2): 244-273., available online at https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2024.33.2.244
page(s): 250, figs 3A–E, 4–6, 7A–F, 8, 9A–R, 10A–C [details] Available for editors
redescription Fahey S.J. & Valdés A. (2005). Review of <i>Acanthodoris</i> Gray, 1850 with a phylogenetic analysis of Onchidorididae Alder and Hancock, 1845 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 56(20): 213-273., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/scipubs/pdfs/v56/proccas_v56_n20.pdf
page(s): 215 [details]
new combination reference Gray, J. E. (1850). [text]. In: Gray, M. E., <i>Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors</i>. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp. (August) [Frontispiece (portrait of Mrs. Gray); pp. ii–iv (preface); 1–62 (explanation of plates 1–312 in Volumes 1–3); pp. 63–124 (systematic arrangement of figures); 127–219 (reprint of Gray 1847). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11632090 [details]
subsequent type designation Fahey S.J. & Valdés A. (2005). Review of <i>Acanthodoris</i> Gray, 1850 with a phylogenetic analysis of Onchidorididae Alder and Hancock, 1845 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 56(20): 213-273., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/scipubs/pdfs/v56/proccas_v56_n20.pdf
note: neotype designation [details]
page(s): 7, pl. 85 fig. 5-8 [details]
context source (Schelde) Maris, T., O. Beauchard, S. Van Damme, E. Van den Bergh, S. Wijnhoven & P. Meire. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. [Reference matrices and Ecotope areas Annex to the Evaluation methodology Scheldt estuary Study on “Ecotope areas and intactness index”. <em>Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke.</em> 35 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Fahey S.J. & Valdés A. (2005). Review of <i>Acanthodoris</i> Gray, 1850 with a phylogenetic analysis of Onchidorididae Alder and Hancock, 1845 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 56(20): 213-273., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/scipubs/pdfs/v56/proccas_v56_n20.pdf [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. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. <i>American Fisheries Society Special Publication</i>, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Bromley, J.E.C. & J.S. Bleakney. (1985). Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. <em>National Research Council of Canada Report, Halifax, N.S.</em> 24119: 366 PP. [details]
additional source Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.</em> 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
additional source Thomas, M. L. H. (1983). Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 64:1-306. [details] Available for editors

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 Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors

additional source Balch, F. N. (1909). A spring collecting trip. Notes on New England nudibranchs II. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 23(3): 33-38., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5314618
page(s): 36 [details]
additional source Ekimova, I. A.; Nikitenko, E.; Stanovova, M.; Schepetov, D. M.; Antokhina, T. I.; Valdés, Á. (2024). Integrative taxonomy and phylogeography of the genus Acanthodoris (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) in the Russian seas, with the description of a new genus. <em>Zoosystematica Rossica.</em> 33(2): 244-273., available online at https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2024.33.2.244
page(s): 250, figs 3A–E, 4–6, 7A–F, 8, 9A–R, 10A–C [details] Available for editors

redescription Fahey S.J. & Valdés A. (2005). Review of <i>Acanthodoris</i> Gray, 1850 with a phylogenetic analysis of Onchidorididae Alder and Hancock, 1845 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 56(20): 213-273., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/scipubs/pdfs/v56/proccas_v56_n20.pdf
page(s): 215 [details]
new combination reference Gray, J. E. (1850). [text]. In: Gray, M. E., <i>Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors</i>. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp. (August) [Frontispiece (portrait of Mrs. Gray); pp. ii–iv (preface); 1–62 (explanation of plates 1–312 in Volumes 1–3); pp. 63–124 (systematic arrangement of figures); 127–219 (reprint of Gray 1847). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11632090 [details]
subsequent type designation Fahey S.J. & Valdés A. (2005). Review of <i>Acanthodoris</i> Gray, 1850 with a phylogenetic analysis of Onchidorididae Alder and Hancock, 1845 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 56(20): 213-273., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/scipubs/pdfs/v56/proccas_v56_n20.pdf
note: neotype designation [details]




Unreviewed
Dimensions reaches 15 to 30 mm in size [details]Distribution Arctic Seas to Ocean City, Maryland [details]
Distribution Bay of Fundy shore of Nova Scotia to Virginia [details]
Habitat infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Language | Name | |
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Danish | dunet doride | [details] |
Dutch | egelslak | [details] |
English | thorny dorishairy spiny doris | [details] |
French | doris épineux | [details] |
German | weichwarzige Sternschneckegestachelte Doris | [details] |
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (49 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (111 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acanthodoris pilosa)
To GenBank (43 nucleotides; 21 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 034053)
To ITIS
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (49 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (111 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acanthodoris pilosa)
To GenBank (43 nucleotides; 21 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 034053)
To ITIS