Hermaea bifida

Hermaea bifida
Drawing of Hermaea bifida from Kunstformen der Natur (1904)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Sacoglossa
clade Placobranchacea
Superfamily: Limapontioidea
Family: Hermaeidae
Genus: Hermaea
Species: H. bifida
Binomial name
Hermaea bifida
(Montagu, 1815)[1]
Synonyms

Doris bifida Montagu, 1815[1]

Hermaea bifida is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Hermaeidae.

Distribution

The type locality for this species is the coast of Devon, South West England, United Kingdom.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Montagu G. (1815) "An account of some new and rare British shells and animals". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 11(2): 179-204. Hermaea bifida is on pages 198-199. Plate 14, figure 2.
  2. ^ Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)". Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.

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