Placida
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| Placida | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia informal group Opisthobranchia clade Sacoglossa clade Plakobranchacea |
| Superfamily: | Limapontioidea |
| Family: | Limapontiidae |
| Genus: | Placida Trinchese, 1876 |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Laura Trinchese, 1873 (Invalid: junior homonym of Laura Lacaze-Duthiers, 1873; Placida is a replacement name ) | |
Placida is a genus of very small or minute sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.[1]
Although similar in appearance to nudibranchs, species in this genus are actually Sacoglossans.
Species
Species within this genus include:[1]
- Placida brevicornis (A. Costa, 1867)
- Placida cremoniana (Trinchese, 1892)
- Placida daguilarensis Jensen, 1990
- Placida dakariensis (Pruvot-Fol, 1953)
- Placida dendritica (Alder and Hancock, 1843)
- Placida fralila Burn, 1966
- Placida kingstoni T. E. Thompson, 1977
- Placida saronica (T.E. Thompson, 1988)
- Placida tardyi (Trinchese, 1873)
- Placida verticillata Ortea, 1981
- Placida viridis (Trinchese, 1873)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 WoRMS : Placida accessed : 13 October 2010]
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- "Placida". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Jensen K.E. (2007) Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 55:255–281.
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