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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHROMODORIDIDAE: CHROMODORIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Ringipleura (Subterclass)
> Nudipleura (Superorder)
> Nudibranchia (Order)
> Doridina (Suborder)
> Doridoidei (Infraorder)
> Chromodoridoidea (Superfamily)
> Chromodorididae (Family)
> Chromodoridinae (Subfamily)
> Goniobranchus (Genus)
> aureomarginatus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Lissodoris Odhner, 1934
Synonymised Names:
=Chromodoris aureomarginata Cheeseman, 1881
=Glossodoris aureomarginata (Cheeseman, 1881)
=Lissodoris mollis Odhner, 1934
Images: Goniobranchus aureomarginatus (Cheeseman, 1881)
Whangarei Heads, Northland, NZ
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHROMODORIDIDAE: CHROMODORIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Ringipleura (Subterclass)
> Nudipleura (Superorder)
> Nudibranchia (Order)
> Doridina (Suborder)
> Doridoidei (Infraorder)
> Chromodoridoidea (Superfamily)
> Chromodorididae (Family)
> Chromodoridinae (Subfamily)
> Goniobranchus (Genus)
> aureomarginatus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Lissodoris Odhner, 1934
Synonymised Names:
=Chromodoris aureomarginata Cheeseman, 1881
=Glossodoris aureomarginata (Cheeseman, 1881)
=Lissodoris mollis Odhner, 1934
Details: Goniobranchus aureomarginatus (Cheeseman, 1881)
Size/Grows to:
Animal 45mm
Distribution:
North Island and northern part of South Island
Geographical Range:
ACFM
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Morley, M.S., Hayward, B.W. 2015 Intertidal records of 'sea slugs' (nudibranchs and allied opisthobranch gastropods) from northern North Island, New Zealand, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 50 (p.66)
  • 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) (p.242)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.285)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil