Ercolania kencolesi inside of Boergesenia cf. forbesii. Locality: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. The length of the slug is about 0.5 cm
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Subclass:
Heterobranchia
Superfamily:
Plakobranchoidea
Family:
Limapontiidae Gray, 1847[1]
Genera
See text.
Synonyms
Pontolimacidae Keferstein, 1863
Stiligeridae Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923
Oleidae O'Donoghue, 1926
Alderiidae Pruvot-Fol, 1954
Ercolaniinae Schmekel & Portmann, 1982
Costasiellidae K. B. Clark, 1984
Limapontiidae is a taxonomic family of small to minute sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks.[2]
These sea slugs resemble nudibranchs, but are not closely related to them. Most of the species are green because of the green algae they eat and live on.
In the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the former family Stiligeridae is described as a synonym of the family Limapontiidae Gray, 1847, belonging to the superfamily Limapontioidea Jensen, 1996.
This family has no subfamilies.
^Gray J. E. (1847). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London15: 167.
^Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). Limapontiidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23063 on 2011-04-12
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