Ercolania

Ercolania is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae. [2]

Ercolania
Ercolania kencolesi inside the alga Boergesenia cf. forbesii.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Sacoglossa
Superfamily:
Plakobranchoidea
Family:
Limapontiidae
Genus:
Ercolania

Species

Species within the genus Ercolania include 24 valid species:[3]

  • Ercolania annelyleorum Wagele, Stemmer, Burghardt & Handeler, 2010[4]
  • Ercolania boodleae (Baba, 1938)
  • Ercolania coerulea Trinchese, 1892
  • Ercolania endophytophaga K. R. Jensen, 1999
  • Ercolania erbsus (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1970)
  • Ercolania evelinae (Marcus, 1959)
  • Ercolania felina (Hutton, 1882)
  • Ercolania fuscata (Gould, 1870)
  • Ercolania gopalai (Rao, 1937)
  • Ercolania halophilae K. R. Jensen, Kohnert, Bendell & Schrödl, 2014
  • Ercolania irregularis (Eliot, 1904)
  • Ercolania kencolesi Grzymbowski, Stemmer & Wagele, 2007[5]
  • Ercolania lozanoi Ortea, 1981
  • Ercolania margaritae Burn, 1974
  • Ercolania nigra (Lemche, 1936)
  • Ercolania pica (Annandale & Prashad, 1922)
  • Ercolania raorum (Marcus & Marcus, 1970)
  • Ercolania selva Ortea & Espinosa, 2001
  • Ercolania subviridis (Baba, 1959)
  • Ercolania talis (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1956)
  • Ercolania tentaculata (Eliot, 1917)
  • Ercolania translucens Jensen, 1993
  • Ercolania varians (Eliot, 1904)
  • Ercolania viridis (A. Costa, 1866)
  • Ercolania zanzibarica Eliot, 1903
Species brought into synonymy include
[3]
  • 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
  • Ercolania siottii Trinchese, 1872
  • Ercolania trinchesii Pruvot-Fol, 1951
  • Ercolania uziellii Trinchese, 1872
  • Ercolania vanellus Marcus, 1957

References
  1. Trinchese S. (1872). Ann. Mus. Stor. nat. Genova 2: 86.
  2. 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
  3. Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.
  4. 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.
  5. 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. pdf.
  • 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.


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