Placida

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Placida
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Placida cremoniana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Sacoglossa
Superfamily: Limapontioidea
Family: Limapontiidae
Genus: Placida
Trinchese, 1876
Synonyms

Laura Trinchese, 1873 (Invalid: junior homonym of Laura Lacaze-Duthiers, 1873; Placida is a replacement name )

Contents

Placida is a genus of very small or minute sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae. [1]

Although similar in appearance to nudibranchs, species in this genus are actually Sacoglossans.

Species

Species within this genus include: [1]

Synonyms
Taxa inquirenda

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References

  1. 1 2 WoRMS : Placida accessed : 13 October 2010]