# Bursatella

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{{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](/source/genus) of [sea slug](/source/sea_slug)s or [sea hare](/source/sea_hare)s, [marine](/source/marine_(ocean)) [opisthobranch](/source/opisthobranch) [gastropod](/source/gastropod) [mollusk](/source/mollusk)s in the family [Aplysiidae](/source/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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