Hypselodoris imperialis

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Hypselodoris imperialis

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Family:	Chromodorididae
Genus:	Hypselodoris
Species:	H. imperialis
Binomial name
*Hypselodoris imperialis* (Pease, 1860)^[1]
Synonyms^[2]
Chromodoris imperialis (Pease, 1860) Doriprismatica imperialis (Pease, 1860) Doris prismatica var. imperialis Pease, 1860 (basionym) Risbecia imperialis (Pease, 1860)

Hypselodoris imperialis is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.^[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Hawaii. It is reported from many locations in the tropical Western Pacific Ocean from Australia to Hawaii.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

^ Pease W.H. (1860). Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the Sandwich Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 28: 18-36, 141-148, page 32.
^ ^a ^b Bouchet, P. (2012). Hypselodoris imperialis. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2012-06-09
^ Rudman, W.B., 2001 (January 8) Risbecia imperialis (Pease, 1860). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
^ Rudman W.B. (1984) The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: a review of the genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 81 (2/3): 115-273. page(s): 207
^ Rudman, W.B. (1987). The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: Chromodoris epicuria, C. aureopurpurea, C. annulata, C. coi and Risbecia tryoni colour groups. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 90 (3): 305-407
^ Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. (2007) Nudibranchs of the world. ConchBooks, Frankfurt, 360 pp. ISBN 978-3-939767-06-0 page(s): 139
^ Gosliner, T.M., Behrens, D.W. & Valdés, Á. (2008) Indo-Pacific Nudibranchs and seaslugs. A field guide to the world's most diverse fauna. Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Washington, 426 pp. page(s): 271
^ Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479

Taxon identifiers
Hypselodoris imperialis	Wikidata: Q14631964 BOLD: 651693 CoL: 6N522 GBIF: 6788184 iNaturalist: 480122 IRMNG: 11743619 NCBI: 508170 OBIS: 597869 Open Tree of Life: 473468 WoRMS: 597869
Risbecia imperialis	Wikidata: Q2526595 BOLD: 85161 CoL: 4T52P GBIF: 5797256 IRMNG: 10529312 Open Tree of Life: 473468 SeaLifeBase: 87308 WoRMS: 558656

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