Hermaeidae
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| Hermaea variopicta | |
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| Drawing of Hermaea bifida from Kunstformen der Natur (1904) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Sacoglossa clade Placobranchacea |
| Superfamily: | Limapontioidea |
| Family: | Hermaeidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 |
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Hermaeidae is a taxonomic family of sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Limapontioidea.[1]
This family has no subfamilies.
[edit] Genera
Jensen (1996)[2] listed three genera Aplysiopsis, Hermaea and Hermaeopsis A. Costa, 1869, which has been synonymized with genus Hermaea.
Jensen (2007)[3] listed two valid genera in the family Hermaeidae:
- genus Aplysiopsis Deshayes, 1839-53
- genus Hermaea Lovèn, 1844 - type genus
Other invalid species within family Hermaeidae include:[3]
- Physopneumon carneum A. Costa, 1862
[edit] References
- ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2).
- ^ Jensen K. R. (1996). "Phylogenetic systematics and classification of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)". Philosophical Transactions of the Rpyal Society London B Biological Sciences 351(1335 ): 91-122. doi:10.1098/rstb.1996.0006.
- ^ a b Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)". Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.
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