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Placida
Placida is a genus of very small or minute sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.[1]
| Placida | |
|---|---|
| Placida cremoniana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Superorder: | Sacoglossa |
| Superfamily: | Plakobranchoidea |
| Family: | Limapontiidae |
| Genus: | Placida Trinchese, 1876 |
| Synonyms | |
| Laura Trinchese, 1873 (Invalid: junior homonym of Laura Lacaze-Duthiers, 1873; Placida is a replacement name ) | |
Although similar in appearance to nudibranchs, species in this genus are actually Sacoglossans.
Species edit
Species within this genus include:[1]
- Placida aoteana (Powell, 1937)
- Placida babai Ev. Marcus, 1982
- Placida barackobamai McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017
- Placida brevirhina (Trinchese, 1874)
- Placida brookae McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017
- Placida cremoniana (Trinchese, 1892)
- Placida dakariensis (Pruvot-Fol, 1953)
- Placida dendritica (Alder and Hancock, 1843)
- Placida fralila Burn, 1966
- Placida kevinleei McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017
- Placida kingstoni T. E. Thompson, 1977
- Placida saronica (T.E. Thompson, 1988)
- Placida sudamericana Cetra, Gutiérrez Gregoric & Roche, 2021
- Placida tardyi (Trinchese, 1873)
- Placida verticillata Ortea, 1981
- Placida viridis (Trinchese, 1873)
- Synonyms
- Placida brevicornis (A. Costa, 1867): synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
- Taxa inquirenda
- Placida capensis Macnae, 1954
- Placida daguilarensis Jensen, 1990 (taxon inquirendum)
References edit
- 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.
External links edit
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- Anonymous. (1873). 19ª Sessione ordinaria, 3 aprile 1873 (preliminary presentation of Trinchese's Memoir to be published in 1874, making some names available). Rendiconto delle sessioni della R. Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, Classe di scienze fisiche. 1872-1873: 133-134