''Ercolania'' is a
genus of small
sacoglossan
sea slugs, shell-less
marine
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opisthobranch
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gastropod
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mollusks in the family
Limapontiidae.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138523 on 2020-11-05]
Species
Species within the genus ''Ercolania'' include 24 valid species:
[Jensen K. R. (November 2007)]
"Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)"
. ''Bonner zoologische Beiträge
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Ercolania annelyleorum
''Ercolania'' is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
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Wagele, Stemmer, Burghardt & Handeler, 2010[Wagele, H., Stemmer, K., Burghardt, I., & Handeler, K. (2010). "Two new sacoglossan sea slug species (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda): ''Ercolania annelyleorum'' sp. nov. (Limapontioidea) and ''Elysia asbecki'' sp. nov. (Plakobranchoidea), with notes on anatomy, histology and biology." '' Zootaxa'' 2676 (2010): 1-28.]
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Ercolania boodleae
''Ercolania'' is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
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(Baba, 1938)
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Ercolania coerulea
''Ercolania'' is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
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Trinchese, 1892
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Ercolania endophytophaga
''Ercolania'' is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
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K. R. Jensen, 1999
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Ercolania erbsus
''Ercolania'' is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
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(Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1970)
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Ercolania evelinae
''Ercolania'' is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
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(Marcus, 1959)
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Ercolania felina
''Ercolania felina'' is a minute black species of sacoglossan or sap-sucking sea slug. It is a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Limapontiidae.WoRMS (2012). Ercolania felina. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www. ...
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(Hutton, 1882)
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Ercolania fuscata
''Ercolania'' is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
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(Gould, 1870)
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Ercolania gopalai
''Ercolania'' is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
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(Rao, 1937)
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Ercolania halophilae
''Ercolania'' is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
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K. R. Jensen, Kohnert, Bendell & Schrödl, 2014
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Ercolania irregularis''
(Eliot, 1904)
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Ercolania kencolesi
''Ercolania kencolesi'' is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Limapontiidae
Limapontiidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small to minute sac ...
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Grzymbowski, Stemmer & Wagele, 2007[Grzymbowski, Y., Stemmer, K. & Wagele, H. (2007). "On a new ''Ercolania'' Trinchese, 1872 (Opisthobranchia, Sacoglossa, Limapontiidae) living within ''Boergesenia'' Feldmann, 1950 (Cladophorales), with notes on anatomy, histology and biology". '' Zootaxa'' 1577: 3-16]
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Ercolania lozanoi''
Ortea, 1981
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Ercolania margaritae''
Burn, 1974
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Ercolania nigra''
(Lemche, 1936)
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Ercolania pica''
(Annandale & Prashad, 1922)
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Ercolania raorum
''Ercolania'' is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
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(Marcus & Marcus, 1970)
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Ercolania selva
''Ercolania'' is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine (ocean), marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World ...
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Ortea & Espinosa, 2001
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Ercolania subviridis''
(Baba, 1959)
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Ercolania talis''
(Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1956)
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Ercolania tentaculata''
(Eliot, 1917)
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Ercolania translucens''
Jensen, 1993
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Ercolania varians''
(Eliot, 1904)
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Ercolania viridis
''Ercolania'' is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
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(A. Costa, 1866)
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Ercolania zanzibarica
''Ercolania zanzibarica'' is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Limapontiidae.
Charles Eliot caught two specimens at Chuaka, on the eastern coast of Zanzibar
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Eliot, 1903
;Species brought into synonymy include:
* ''Ercolania costai''
Pruvot-Fol, 1951
* ''Ercolania cricetae''
(Marcus & Marcus, 1970)
* ''Ercolania emarginata''
Jensen, 1985
* ''Ercolania funerea''
(Costa, 1867)
* ''Ercolania nigrovittata''
(A. Costa, 1866)
* ''Ercolania nigrovittata''
(Rao & Rao, 1963)
* ''Ercolania pancerii''
Trinchese, 1872
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Ercolania siottii''
Trinchese, 1872
* ''Ercolania trinchesii''
Pruvot-Fol, 1951
* ''Ercolania uziellii''
Trinchese, 1872
* ''Ercolania vanellus''
Marcus, 1957
References
* Trinchese S. (1872). Un nuovo genere della famiglia degli eolidei Ercolania Trinchese. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 2: 86-132 + 10p
* Ortea, J., 1982. Moluscos Opistobranquios de las Islas Canarias. Boletín del Instituto Español de Oceanografía 6(327): 180-199
* Jensen, K.R. (2007). Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge. 55: 255–281.
Limapontiidae
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