{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic Taxobox | image = Blue Spot Sea Hare (18 cm) 1 (234970169).jpg | image_caption = ''Bursatella leachii'' | taxon = Bursatella | authority = Blainville, 1817<ref>Blainville H.M.D. de (1817). [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23001647 ''Bursatella'', p. 138] in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 5, supplément. Levrault, Strasbourg & Le Normant, Paris.</ref> | type_species = ''Bursatella leachii'' | type_species_authority = Blainville, 1817 |synonyms_ref= |synonyms= * ''Aclesia'' <small>Rang, 1828</small> * ''Barnardaclesia'' <small>Eales & Engel, 1935</small> * ''Notarchus (Bursatella)'' <small>Blainville, 1817</small> * ''Ramosaclesia'' <small>Iredale, 1929</small> · | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}
'''''Bursatella''''' is a genus of sea slugs or sea hares, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Aplysiidae, the sea hares.<ref>MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137655 ''Bursatella'' Blainville, 1817.] Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2021-01-27.</ref>
==Species== Species within the genus ''Bursatella'' include: {{Linked species list |Bursatella africana |(Engel, 1926) |Bursatella hirsuta |Nimbs & N.G. Wilson, 2020 |Bursatella leachii |Blainville, 1817 |Bursatella ocelligera |(Bergh, 1902) }}
;Synonyms: * ''Bursatella lacinulata'' <small>A. Gould, 1852</small>: synonym of ''Bursatella leachii'' <small>Blainville, 1817</small> (junior subjective synonym) * ''Bursatella leachi'': synonym of ''Bursatella leachii''<small> Blainville, 1817</small> (misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling) * ''Bursatella savigniana'' <small>Audouin, 1826</small>: synonym of ''Bursatella leachii'' <small>Blainville, 181</small>7
==References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite journal |last1=Eales |first1=N. |last2=Engel |first2=H. |title=The genus Bursatella De Blainville |journal=Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London |date=1935 |volume=21 |page=282}}
==External links== * {{cite journal |last1=Iredale |first1=T. |title=Strange molluscs in Sydney Harbour |journal=Australian Zoologist |date=1929 |volume=5 |issue=4 |page=352 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38709514}} * {{cite journal |title=Molecular and morphological systematics of Bursatella leachii de Blainville, 1817 and Stylocheilus striatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 reveal cryptic diversity in pantropically distributed taxa (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Heterobranchia) |journal=Invertebrate Systematics |date=2020 |volume=34 |pages=535–568 |doi=10.1071/is19056 |url=https://doi.org/10.1071/is19056 |last1=Bazzicalupo |first1=Enrico |last2=Crocetta |first2=Fabio |last3=Gosliner |first3=Terrence M. |last4=Berteaux-Lecellier |first4=Véronique |last5=Camacho-García |first5=Yolanda E. |last6=Chandran |first6=B. K. Sneha |last7=Valdés |first7=Ángel }}
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Category:Aplysiidae Category:Gastropod genera
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