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Hermaea (gastropod)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Limapontioidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Hermaeidae

Rank
  
Genus

Hermaea (gastropod)

Similar
  
Hermaea bifida, Hermaea variopicta, Placida, Placida dendritica, Ercolania

Hermaea is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Hermaeidae.

Hermaea is the type genus of the family Hermaeidae.

Species

Species within the genus Hermaea include 13 valid species:

  • Hermaea bifida (Montagu, 1816)
  • Hermaea boucheti Cervera, Garcia-Gomez & Ortea, 1991
  • Hermaea coirala Marcus, 1955
  • Hermaea cruciata Gould, 1870
  • Hermaea cubana Caballer & Ortea, 2013
  • Hermaea evelinemarcusae Jensen, 1993
  • Hermaea ghanensis Caballer, Ortea & Moro, 2006
  • Hermaea hillae Marcus & Marcus, 1967
  • Hermaea minor Bergh, 1888 (taxon inquirendum)
  • Hermaea nautica Caballer & Ortea, 2007
  • Hermaea noto (Baba, 1959)
  • Hermaea oliviae (MacFarland, 1966)
  • Hermaea paucicirra Pruvot-Fol, 1953
  • Hermaea vancouverensis O'Donoghue, 1924
  • Hermaea variopicta (A. Costa, 1869)
  • Hermaea wrangeliae (Ichikawa, 1993)
  • Hermaea zosterae (Baba, 1959)
    • Species brought into synonymy
  • Hermaea aoteana Powell, 1937: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  • Hermaea brevicornis Costa A., 1867: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  • Hermaea capensis Macnae, 1954: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  • Hermaea carminis Fez, 1962: synonym of Placida cremoniana (Trinchese, 1892)
  • Hermaea cremoniana Trinchese, 1892: synonym of Placida cremoniana (Trinchese, 1892)
  • Hermaea dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843): synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  • Hermaea hancockii Trinchese, 1877: synonym of Hermaea bifida (Montagu, 1816)
  • Hermaea kingstoni (T. E. Thompson, 1977): synonym of Placida kingstoni T. E. Thompson, 1977
  • Hermaea lutescens A. Costa, 1866: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  • Hermaea orbicularis Costa A., 1866: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  • Hermaea ornata MacFarland, 1966: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  • Hermaea polychroma (Hesse, 1873): synonym of Hermaea variopicta (A. Costa, 1869)
  • Hermaea saronica Thompson T., 1988: synonym of Placida saronica (T. E. Thompson, 1988)
  • Hermaea venosa Lovén, 1845: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  • Hermaea viridis Deshayes, 1857: synonym of Polybranchia viridis (Deshayes, 1857)

    • References

    Hermaea (gastropod) Wikipedia
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