Ercolania

Ercolania
Ercolania kencolesi inside the alga Boergesenia cf. forbesii.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Sacoglossa
Family: Limapontiidae
Genus: Ercolania
Trinchese, 1872
Ercolania on filamentous algae
A close-up of Ercolania viridis

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 25 valid species:

Species brought into synonymy include

References

  1. ↑ Trinchese S. (1872). Ann. Mus. Stor. nat. Genova 2: 86.
  2. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138523 on 2020-11-05
  3. 1 2 Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Nanda, Satya Swaroop; Chatragadda, Ramesh; Dalvi, Narayan (2025-12-04). "Integrated taxonomy of Ercolania gujaratensis sp. nov.: a new sacoglossan heterobranch from the Gujarat coast, India". Marine Biodiversity. 55 (6): 117. doi:10.1007/s12526-025-01606-0. ISSN 1867-1624.
  6. ↑ 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.