Palio (gastropod)

Genus of gastropods

Palio

Palio nothus, Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Order:  | Nudibranchia
Superfamily:  | Polyceroidea
Family:  | Polyceridae
Subfamily:  | Polycerinae
Genus:  | Palio
Gray, 1857[1]

Palio is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the family Polyceridae.

## Species

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The following species are recognised in the genus Palio:[2]

* Palio amakusana (Baba, 1960) [3]
* Palio dubia (M. Sars, 1829)[4]
* Palio gracilis (Pease, 1971)
* Palio ionica Korshunova, Sanamyan & Martynov, 2015
* Palio nothus (Johnston, 1838)[5]
* Palio zosterae (O'Donoghue, 1924) eelgrass polycera

## References

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1. ^ Gray, J. E. 1857. Guide to the systematic distribution of Mollusca in the British Museum. Part 1, xii + 230pp. London.
2. ^ Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2023). Palio Gray, 1857. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2023-07-02
3. ^ Baba, K. (1960). The genera Polycera, Palio, Greilada and Thecacera from Japan (Nudibranchia - Polyceridae). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 8(1): 75-78, pl. 6.
4. ^ Rudman, W.B., 2000 (September 17) Palio dubia (M. Sars, 1829). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
5. ^ Thompson, T.E. (1988) Molluscs: Benthic Opisthobranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda). E.J.Brill / Dr W.Backhuys. 356pp.

Taxon identifiers

Palio|

* Wikidata: Q7127564
* Wikispecies: Palio
* BOLD: 4309
* CoL: 7PBLX
* GBIF: 2291782
* iNaturalist: 50062
* IRMNG: 1296687
* ITIS: 78309
* NBN: NHMSYS0021056258
* NCBI: 71371
* Open Tree of Life: 83558
* WoRMS: 182805