Aplysia (Metaplysia) badistes Pilsbry, 1951

Cunha, Carlo M. & Rosenberg, Gary, 2019, Type specimens of Aplysiida (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with taxonomic remarks, Zoosystematics and Evolution 95 (2), pp. 361-372 : 361

Aplysia (Metaplysia) badistes Pilsbry, 1951 Figure 1 C–G

Aplysia (Metaplysia) badistes Pilsbry, 1951: 1-6, figs 1-9.

Type locality.

Venetian Causeway, Biscayne Bay, Florida, USA.

Type material.

Holotype and paratype: ANSP A7028, 2 specimens (one whole except for removal of buccal mass, measuring 45.8 mm long preserved and the other dissected, measuring 46.7 mm long preserved); ANSP 187712, 1 shell (18.7 mm) and gizzard plates of dissected specimen of A7028 (H. A. Pilsbry coll., iv/1951), 1 slide with radulas of dissected specimens.

Remarks.

Aplysia badistes Pilsbry, 1951 is the type species of subgenus Metaplysia Pilsbry, 1951. Pilsbry stated "Type and another specimen are 187712 ANSP". Pilsbry described the internal anatomy from one specimen but extracted the radula from both. Someone separated the shell and gizzard plates as ANSP 188279, and labeled them “Paratype”, a term not used in the publication. We have restored them to the original catalogue number (187712) as it is not possible to tell which specimen Pilsbry intended to be the holotype.

Current systematic position.

A. juliana Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 (fide Eales 1960).