Stiligeridae

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Stiligeridae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Heterobranchia
Order: Opisthobranchia
Suborder: Sacoglossa
Family: Stiligeridae
Iredale, T. & C.H. O'Donoghue, 1923 [1]
Genera

See text.

Stiligeridae is a taxonomic family of small to minute sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks.

These sea slugs resembling nudibranchs, but are not closely related to them. Most of the species are green because of the green algae they eat and live on.

In the new taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the family Stiligeridae is described as a synonym of of the family Limapontiidae Gray, 1847 .

[edit] Genera in the family Stiligeridae

  • Alderia Allman, 1845
  • Aplysiopsis Deshayes, 1835
  • Ercolania Trinchese, 1872
  • Hermaea Loven, 1844
  • Hermaeopsis Da Costa, 1869
  • Olea Agersborg, 1923
  • Placida Trinchese, 1876
  • Stiliger Ehrenberg, 1831

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Tom Iredale & O'Donoghue (1923). "List of British nudibranchiata mollusca". Proceedings of the malacological Society of London 15 (4): 195–233. 

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