Ercolania
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| Genus: | Ercolania |
Ercolania is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.
Species
Species within the genus Ercolania include 24 valid species:[2]
- Ercolania annelyleorum Wagele, Stemmer, Burghardt & Handeler, 2010[3]
- Ercolania boodleae (Baba, 1938)
- Ercolania coerulea Trinchese, 1892
- Ercolania evelinae (Marcus, 1959)
- Ercolania endophytophaga Jensen, 1999
- Ercolania erbsus (Marcus & Marcus, 1970)
- Ercolania felina (Hutton, 1882)
- Ercolania fuscata (Gould, 1870)
- Ercolania gopalai (Rao, 1937)
- Ercolania irregularis (Eliot, 1904)
- Ercolania kencolesi Grzymbowski, Stemmer & Wagele, 2007[4]
- Ercolania lozanoi Ortea, 1981
- Ercolania margaritae Burn, 1974
- Ercolania nigra (Lemche, 1936)
- Ercolania pica (Annandale & Prashad, 1922)
- Ercolania raorum (Marcus & Marcus, 1970)
- Ercolania selva Ortea & Espinosa, 2001
- Ercolania siottii Trinchese, 1872
- Ercolania subviridis (Baba, 1959)
- Ercolania tentaculata (Eliot, 1917)
- Ercolania translucens Jensen, 1993
- Ercolania varians (Eliot, 1904)
- Ercolania viridis (A. Costa, 1866)
- Ercolania zanzibarica Eliot, 1903
Invalid species named Ercolania include:[2]
- Ercolania costai Pruvot-Fol, 1951
- Ercolania cricetae (Marcus & Marcus, 1970)
- Ercolania emarginata Jensen, 1985
- Ercolania funerea (Costa, 1867)
- Ercolania nigrovittata (A. Costa, 1866)
- Ercolania nigrovittata (Rao & Rao, 1963)
- Ercolania pancerii Trinchese, 1872
- Ercolania talis (Marcus & Marcus, 1956)
- Ercolania trinchesii Pruvot-Fol, 1951
- Ercolania uziellii Trinchese, 1872
- Ercolania vanellus Marcus, 1957
References
- ^ Trinchese S. (1872). Ann. Mus. Stor. nat. Genova 2: 86.
- ^ a b Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)". Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.