Ercolania varians

Ercolania varians
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Family:	Limapontiidae
Genus:	Ercolania
Species:	E. varians
Binomial name
	Ercolania varians; (Eliot, 1904)

Last updated November 03, 2025

Ercolania varians is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Limapontiidae.^[1]

In 1904, Charles Eliot described ercolania varians as "brilliant green" with "numerous lines of deeper color" that could be digestive gland branches.^[2]

References

↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Ercolania varians (Eliot, 1904)". WoRMS. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
↑ Wägele, Heike; Stemmer, Kristina; Burghardt, Ingo; Händeler, Katharina (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" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2676: 1–28. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2676.1.1 – via EBSCOHost.

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[1] "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Ercolania varians (Eliot, 1904)". WoRMS. Retrieved 5 December 2017.

[2] Wägele, Heike; Stemmer, Kristina; Burghardt, Ingo; Händeler, Katharina (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" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2676: 1–28. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2676.1.1 – via EBSCOHost.

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