Ercolania

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Ercolania
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Ercolania kencolesi inside the alga Boergesenia cf. forbesii.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Limapontiidae
Genus: Ercolania
Trinchese, 1872 [1]
Ercolania on filamentous algae
Ercolania close-up.

Ercolania is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae. [2]

Species

Species within the genus Ercolania include 24 valid species: [3]

Species brought into synonymy include
[3]

References

  1. Trinchese S. (1872). Ann. Mus. Stor. nat. Genova2: 86.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138523 on 2020-11-05
  3. 1 2 Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine . Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.
  4. Wagele, H., Stemmer, K., Burghardt, I., & Handeler, K. (2010). "Two new sacoglossan sea slug species (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda): Ercolania annelyleorum sp. nov. (Limapontioidea) and Elysia asbecki sp. nov. (Plakobranchoidea), with notes on anatomy, histology and biology." Zootaxa 2676 (2010): 1-28.
  5. Grzymbowski, Y., Stemmer, K. & Wagele, H. (2007). "On a new Ercolania Trinchese, 1872 (Opisthobranchia, Sacoglossa, Limapontiidae) living within Boergesenia Feldmann, 1950 (Cladophorales), with notes on anatomy, histology and biology". Zootaxa 1577: 3-16. pdf.