Hermaea variopicta

Hermaea variopicta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Sacoglossa
clade Plakobranchacea
Superfamily: Limapontioidea
Family: Hermaeidae
Genus: Hermaea
Species: H. variopicta
Binomial name
Hermaea variopicta
(A. Costa, 1869)

Hermaea variopicta is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Hermaeidae.[1]

Distribution

This species is known to occur in the Mediterranean, Morocco, Atlantic coast of France and southwestern England.[2]

References

  1. Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)". Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.
  2. http://www.seaslugforum.net/hermvari.htm