Lobiger viridis  Pease, 1863
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Taxonomy:
Class: Gastropoda  Cuvier, 1797
Subclass: Heterobranchia  Gray, J.E., 1840
Clade: Euthyneura  Spengel, 1881
Clade: Panpulmonata  Jörger et al., 2010
Clade: Sacoglossa  von Ihering, 1876
Subclade: Oxynoacea  Odhner, 1939 
Superfamily: Oxynooidea  Adams, H. & A., 1854
Family: Oxynoidae  Stoliczka, 1868 (1847) 
Genus: Lobiger  Krohn, 1847 
Species: Lobiger viridis   Pease, 1863

the experts have no consens whether
Lobiger viridis Pease, 1863 is a synonym of
Lobiger souverbii  Fischer, P., 1856 or not
there is the consens that both species might have the same colour variants (with blue lines or without),
some scientists (Terrence M.Gosliner, William B.Rudman, Kathe R. Jensen, et al) 
see Lobiger viridis as a species of the tropical Indo-Pazific and 
Lobiger souverbii as a species of the tropical Western Atlantic Ocean and of the Eastern Pacific Ocean,
Kathe R. Jensen writes at the Sea Slug Forum:
"It is possible that it could be one "world-wide" species, but in that case a number of genetically isolated populations seem to occur. This might something for the molecular biologists to look into."
Dr. Richard C. Willan sees one world-wide species, just as NUDIPIXEL at
http://www.nudipixel.net/species/lobiger_souverbii/

formerly:
Class: GASTROPODA   Cuvier, 1797 
Subclass: OPISTHOBRANCHIA Milne-Edwards, 1848 
Order: SACOGLOSSA  von Ihering, 1876 

Jörger et al. (2010) have moved Sacoglossa to Panpulmonata
have a look at
Jörger, Stöger, Kano, Fukuda, Knebelsberger & Schrödl (2010). 
"On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of
Heterobranchia". 
BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 323. online at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/323
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