Limacia lucida

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Limacia lucida
Orange clubbed nudibranch near Photographers Reef DSC09519.jpg
Orange clubbed nudibranch near Photographers Reef, Simon's Town.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea

clade Doridacea
Superfamily:
Polyceroidea
Family:
Polyceridae
Subfamily:
Triophinae
Tribe:
Limaciini
Genus:
Limacia
Species:
L. lucida
Binomial name
Limacia lucida
(Stimpson, 1854)[1]

Limacia lucida is a sea slug, a species of dorid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.[2]

Distribution[]

Limacia lucida was described from Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. It has been treated as a synonym of Limacia clavigera.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Stimpson, W. (1856) Description of some new marine invertebrates. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 7(10): 385-395.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Limacia lucida (Stimpson, 1854). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-12-22
  3. ^ Caballer Gutiérrez, M., Almón Pazos, B., Pérez Dieste, J., (2015) The sea slug genus Limacia Müller, 1781 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) in Europe. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 57:35-42.
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