Biology:Limacia

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For the genus of plants, see Limacia (plant)

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Limacia
Limacia clavigera-JR01.jpg
Limacia clavigera grazing on the bryozoan Membranipora membranacea
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Polyceroidea
Family: Polyceridae
Subfamily: Triophinae
Genus: Limacia
Muller, 1781
Synonyms
  • Euphurus Rafinesque, 1815
  • Laila MacFarland, 1905

Limacia is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Polyceridae.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Limacia include:[1]

  • Limacia annulata Vallès, Valdés & Ortea, 2000
  • Limacia antofagastensis Uribe, Sepúlveda, Goddard & Valdés, 2017[2]
  • Limacia clavigera (O. F. Müller, 1776)
  • Limacia cockerelli (MacFarland, 1905)
  • Limacia iberica Caballer Gutiérrez, Almón Pazos, Pérez Dieste, 2015[3]
  • Limacia inesae Toms, Pola, Von der Heyden & Gosliner, 2021
  • Limacia janssi (Bertsch & Ferreira, 1974)
  • Limacia jellyi Toms, Pola, Von der Heyden & Gosliner, 2021
  • Limacia langavi Toms, Pola, Von der Heyden & Gosliner, 2021
  • Limacia lucida (Stimpson, 1854)
  • Limacia mcdonaldi Uribe, Sepúlveda, Goddard & Valdés, 2017
  • Limacia miali Toms, Pola, Von der Heyden & Gosliner, 2021
  • Limacia ornata (Baba, 1937)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 MolluscaBase (2018). Limacia O. F. Müller, 1781. Accessed on 2021-01-12.
  2. Uribe R.A., Sepúlveda F., Goddard J.H.R. & Valdés Á. (2017). Integrative systematics of the genus Limacia O. F. Müller, 1781 (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Nudibranchia, Polyceridae) in the Eastern Pacific. Marine Biodiversity. DOI 10.1007/s12526-017-0676-5
  3. Caballer Gutiérrez, M., Almón Pazos, B., Pérez Dieste, J., (2015) The sea slug genus Limacia Müller, 1781 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) in Europe. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 57:35-42.

Wikidata ☰ Q3240999 entry