Galapagos Species Database

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Samla telja (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967)

Eolidáceo translúcido, Slugs

Length: 11 mm; width: 3 mm.

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), intertidal

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Nudibranchia

Family
Samlidae

Genus
Samla

Species
telja

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Flabellina telja Marcus & Marcus, 1967 (Horton, et al. 2021)

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: (F. telja) Bahia Cholla, Puerto Peñasco northern extreme of the Gulf of California, Bahia San Francisco in Western side Gulf of California, Revillagigedo, Gulf of Chiriquí and Galapagos Islands (Gosliner, 1994). México (Sonora) and Ecuador (Galapagos Islands) (Hickman, 1999).

References

  • Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
  • Gosliner, T.M. (1994) New records of Flabellinidae (Opisthobranchia: Aeolidacea) from the tropical Americas, with descriptions of two new species Proceeding of the California Academy of Sciences. Vol 48, No. 9, p171-183
  • Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 pp.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
  • Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Samla telja", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19129. Accessed 4 June 2026.