Placida
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Sacoglossa |
| Superfamily: | Limapontioidea |
| Family: | Limapontiidae |
| Genus: | Placida Trinchese, 1876 |
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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 aoteana (Powell, 1937)
- Ev. Marcus, 1982
- McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017
- (Trinchese, 1874)
- McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017
- (Trinchese, 1892)
- (Pruvot-Fol, 1953)
- Placida dendritica (Alder and Hancock, 1843)
- Burn, 1966
- McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017
- T. E. Thompson, 1977
- (T.E. Thompson, 1988)
- Cetra, Gutiérrez Gregoric & Roche, 2021
- (Trinchese, 1873)
- Ortea, 1981
- (Trinchese, 1873)
- Synonyms
- Placida brevicornis (A. Costa, 1867): synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
- Taxa inquirenda
- Macnae, 1954
- Jensen, 1990 (taxon inquirendum)
References[]
- ^ a b 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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Categories:
- Limapontiidae
- Sacoglossa stubs