Limacia

For the genus of plants, see Limacia (plant)

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Limacia

Limacia clavigera grazing on the bryozoan Membranipora membranacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Heterobranchia
Order:  | Nudibranchia
Suborder:  | Doridina
Superfamily:  | Polyceroidea
Family:  | Polyceridae
Subfamily:  | Triophinae
Genus:  | Limacia
Muller, 1781
Synonyms

* Euphurus Rafinesque, 1815
* Laila MacFarland, 1905

Limacia is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Polyceridae.[1]

## Species

Species within the genus Limacia include:[1]

* Limacia annulata Vallès, Valdés & Ortea, 2000
* Limacia antofagastensis Uribe, Sepúlveda, Goddard & Valdés, 2017[2]
* Limacia clavigera (O. F. Müller, 1776)
* Limacia cockerelli (MacFarland, 1905)
* Limacia iberica Caballer Gutiérrez, Almón Pazos, Pérez Dieste, 2015[3]
* Limacia inesae Toms, Pola, Von der Heyden & Gosliner, 2021
* Limacia janssi (Bertsch & Ferreira, 1974)
* Limacia jellyi Toms, Pola, Von der Heyden & Gosliner, 2021
* Limacia langavi Toms, Pola, Von der Heyden & Gosliner, 2021
* Limacia lucida (Stimpson, 1854)
* Limacia mcdonaldi Uribe, Sepúlveda, Goddard & Valdés, 2017
* Limacia miali Toms, Pola, Von der Heyden & Gosliner, 2021
* Limacia ornata (Baba, 1937)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 MolluscaBase (2018). Limacia O. F. Müller, 1781. Accessed on 2021-01-12.
2. ↑ Uribe R.A., Sepúlveda F., Goddard J.H.R. & Valdés Á. (2017). Integrative systematics of the genus Limacia O. F. Müller, 1781 (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Nudibranchia, Polyceridae) in the Eastern Pacific. Marine Biodiversity. DOI 10.1007/s12526-017-0676-5
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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