Baeolidia orientalis ( Bergh, 1905 )

Carmona, Leila, Pola, Marta, Gosliner, Terrence M. & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2014, Review of Baeolidia, the largest genus of Aeolidiidae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia), with the description of five new species, Zootaxa 3802 (4), pp. 477-514 : 486

Baeolidia orientalis ( Bergh, 1905)

Spurilla orientalis Bergh, 1905: 223 , pl. XIX, Figs. 29–31.

Type locality. Tual Reef, Kei Island, Indonesia (Station 258 of the Siboga Expedition).

Type material. The material was deposited in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden. The registration number of the syntype of Baeolidia orientalis is ZMA. MOLL.139366

Geographical distribution. To date, this species is only known from the Indo-Pacific ( Bergh 1905).

External and internal morphology. Not properly described by Bergh (1905). No specimens available for the present study.

Remarks. Since Bergh (1905), new specimens of Spurilla orientalis have not been discovered again. However, its name can be found in the literature as part of the discussion of other Spurilla species (e.g. Er. Marcus 1961; García-Gómez 2002). Based on the ceratal insertion (in arches and rows), the figure of the radular tooth ( Bergh 1905) and the geographical distribution of Spurilla and Baeolidia ( Carmona et al. 2013) , this “species” should be ascribed to Baeolidia . However, the lack of any singular morphological characters in the original description of Baeolidia orientalis leads us to render this species as nomen dubium.