''Crosslandia'' is a genus of
sea slugs
Sea slug is a common name for some marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are sea snails (marine gastropod mollusks) that over evolutionary tim ...
, in the family
Scyllaeidae
Scyllaeidae is a taxonomic family of sea slugs, nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Dendronotoidea.Bouchet, P. (2012). Scyllaeidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.p ...
.
Members of this genus inhabit areas such as the
Pacific coast
The coast, also known as the coastline or seashore, is defined as the area where land meets the ocean, or as a line that forms the boundary between the land and the coastline. The Earth has around of coastline. Coasts are important zones in n ...
of
Central America
Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States to the north, Colombia to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. ...
, and the
Indo-West Pacific.
Species
* ''
Crosslandia daedali
''Crosslandia daedali'' is a species of sea slug within the family Scyllaeidae, found in subtropical waters in the Eastern Central Pacific Ocean in Mexico and Costa Rica. It lives in benthic environments, usually on algae within the genus ' ...
''
Poorman & Mulliner, 1981
* ''
Crosslandia viridis
''Crosslandia'' is a genus of sea slugs, in the family Scyllaeidae. Members of this genus inhabit areas such as the Pacific coast of Central America, and the Indo-West Pacific
The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth.
In ...
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Eliot, 1902
References
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Scyllaeidae