{"scientificNameAuthorship":"Blainville, 1817","RecordModifiedOn":"2021-06-30","CAAB_code":"24388007","phylum":"Mollusca","Notes":"This widespread species was previously regarded as the only species in the genus, but is now recognised as a species complex. Specimens from Western Australia and western South Australia previously recorded as this species are now regarded as a distinct species, <i>B. hirsuta</i>.","habitat":"Marine unspecified<br>","NameVerifiedSource":"Bazzicalupo, E., Crocetta, F., Gosliner, T.M., Berteaux-Lecellier, V., Camacho-Garcia, Y.E., Chandran, B.K.S., Valdes, Á., 2020. Molecular and morphological systematics of <i>Bursatella leachii</i> de Blainville, 1817 and <i>Stylocheilus striatus</i> Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 reveal cryptic diversity in pantropically distributed taxa (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia)., <i>Invertebrate Systematics</i>, Vol. 34: 535-568. . doi.org/10.1071/IS19056 <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1071/IS19056\">doi:10.1071/IS19056</a>","Parent_Id":24388902,"scientificName":"Bursatella leachii","kingdom":"Animalia","order":"Anaspidea","otherVernacularNames":"","Reference":"Burn, R., 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia., <i>Museum Victoria Science Reports</i>, Vol. 10: 1-42.","vernacularName":"[a sea hare]","ChildCodes":"","RecordCreatedOn":"2008-08-22","scientificNameID_WoRMS":"urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138759","family":"Aplysiidae","standardName":"","class":"Gastropoda","scientificNameID_AFD":"urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:a3648259-f29d-47ea-a090-01ba578fef07","CAAB_status":"Valid"}