Akera soluta

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range= | image = Utsusemi-gai 空蝉貝 Akera soluta.jpg | image_caption = ''Akera soluta'' | taxon = Akera soluta | authority = (Gmelin, 1791) |synonyms_ref= | synonyms = * ''Bulla (Akera) tenuis'' A. Adams, 1850 * ''Bulla (Akera) tumida'' A. Adams, 1850 superseded combination * ''Bulla ceylanica'' Bruguière, 1792 junior subjective synonym * ''Bulla soluta'' Gmelin, 1791 (original combination) * ''Bulla tenuis'' A. Adams, 1850 junior subjective synonym * ''Bulla tumida'' A. Adams, 1850 superseded combination |range_map= Akera soluta - distribution.jpg |display_parents= 3 }}

'''''Akera soluta''''' is a species of sea snail (or sea slug), a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Akeridae, a family that is related to the sea hares.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|217247 |''Akera soluta'' (Gmelin, 1791)|2024-07-02}}</ref>

==Description== The length of the shell attains 40.6 mm.

(Described as ''Bulla (Akera) tenuis'') The shell is subcylindrical and slender, with an extended anterior. It has a horny, diaphanous appearance and features longitudinal striations. The spire is relatively elevated.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adams |first1=A. |title=Monograph of the family Bullidae. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.) |date=1850 |publisher=privately published |location=London |page=573 |edition=vol. 2 11 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43936916 |access-date=2 July 2024}} {{source-attribution}}</ref>

==Distribution== This marine species occurs in the tropical and temperate Indo-Pacific; also off Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Akera |first1=soluta|title= Akera soluta|url=https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=4359266 |website=Gbif.org |publisher=Global Biodiversity Information Facility |access-date=2 July 2024}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}} *{{cite book |last1=Gosliner |first1=T. |title=Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa |date=1987 |publisher=Sea Challengers |location=Monterey, California. |page=46 |access-date=}} *{{cite book |last1=Yonow |first1=N. |title=Sea slugs of the Red Sea. |date=2008 |publisher=Pensoft |location=Sofia-Moscow |pages=1–308}} * {{cite book |last1=Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. |title=Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector's Guide to Beached Shells |date=1998 |publisher=Ekogilde Publishers |location=Hartebeespoort, South Africa |page=180}}

==External links== *{{cite book |last1=Gmelin |first1=J.F. |title=Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae |date=1791 |volume=Tom. 1 Pars. 6 |publisher=G.E. Beer |location=Lipsiae [Leipzig] |page=3434 |edition=13 tome 1 (6) |url=http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 |access-date=2 July 2024}} *{{cite book |last1=Bruguière |first1=J.G. |title=Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers, volume 1 |date=1789–1792 |publisher=Pancoucke |location=Paris |page=377 |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006 |access-date=2 July 2024}} *{{cite journal |last1=Beu |first1=A.G. |title=Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: Revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand |date=2004 |volume=34 |issue=2 |page=233 |doi=10.1080/03014223.2004.9517766 |bibcode=2004JRSNZ..34..111B |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/03014223.2004.9517766 |access-date=2 July 2024|url-access=subscription }} *{{cite journal |last1=Burn |first1=R.F. |title=A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia |journal=Museum Victoria Science Reports |date=2006 |volume=10 |pages=1–42 |doi=10.24199/j.mvsr.2006.10 |url=http://researchdata.museum.vic.gov.au/marine/burn_2006.pdf |access-date=2 July 2024}} * {{cite journal |last1=Valdés Á. & Barwick K |title=First record of Akera Müller, 1776, from the Eastern Pacific, with the description of a new species |journal=The Nautilus |date=2005 |volume=119 |issue=1 |pages=43–49 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35185780}}

soluta Category:Gastropods described in 1791 Category:Molluscs of the Indian Ocean Category:Molluscs of the Pacific Ocean Category:Marine gastropods