Berghia verrucicornis

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Berghia verrucicornis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Suborder:	Cladobranchia
Family:	Aeolidiidae
Genus:	Berghia
Species:	B. verrucicornis
Binomial name
*Berghia verrucicornis* (A. Costa, 1867)^[1]
Synonyms^[2]
Eolidia cavolinii Vérany, 1846 Eolis grossularia P. Fischer, 1869 Facelina variegata d'Oliveira, 1895 Flabellina verrucicornis A. Costa, 1867 (original combination) Spurilla margaritae Labbé, 1923 Spurilla verrucicornis (A. Costa, 1867)

Berghia verrucicornis is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch. It is a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aeolidiidae.^[2]

Distribution

This species was described from the Gulf of Naples, Italy.^[1] It is widespread in the Mediterranean Sea. On the eastern coasts of the North Atlantic Ocean Berghia verrucicornis is reported from the Bassin d"Arcachon^[3] south to Senegal^[4] and Ghana.^[5] Reports of this species from elsewhere appear to be of similar separate species, in particular Berghia stephanieae.

Description

This species has a maximum reported size of 20 mm.^[4]

Habitat

This species is found in depths of 0 m to 11 m.^[4]

In the aquarium

The species from aquaria eating Aiptasia anemones has been called Berghia verrucicornis, but is actually the species Berghia stephanieae, which was described in 2005.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Costa, A. 1867. [for 1864]. Saggio sui molluschi eolididei del Golfo di Napoli. Annuario del Museo Zoologico della Universita di Napoli 4(2):26-37, pls. 1-2.
^ ^a ^b Rosenberg, G.; Gofas, S. (2014). Berghia verrucicornis (A. Costa, 1867). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-23
^ Bebbington, A., & Thomas E. Thompson. 1968. Note sur les opisthobranches du Bassin d'Arcachon. Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux, ser. A 105(5):1-35.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Rudman, W.B., 1998 (July 2) Berghia verrucicornis (A. Costa, 1864). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Accessed 13 September 2011.
^ Edmunds, M. (1968). Eolid Mollusca from Ghana with further details of west Atlantic species. Bulletin of Marine Science, 18(1): 203-219.

Taxon identifiers
Berghia verrucicornis	Wikidata: Q4891664 Wikispecies: Berghia verrucicornis BOLD: 361894 CoL: 68JS3 GBIF: 2291927 iNaturalist: 255168 IRMNG: 11390895 ITIS: 78731 NCBI: 929456 Observation.org: 824328 OBIS: 196604 SeaLifeBase: 1782 WoRMS: 196604

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