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Limacia (plant)''
''Limacia'' is a
genus
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of
sea slug
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dorid
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nudibranch
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s,
marine gastropod
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mollusc
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s in the
family
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Polyceridae
The Polyceridae are a taxonomic family of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Polyceroidea.
Taxonomy
The family Polyceridae is classified within the clade Doridacea, itself belonging to the clade Eu ...
.
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''Limacia'' O. F. Müller, 1781.
Accessed on 2021-01-12.
Species
Species within the genus ''Limacia'' include:
* ''
Limacia annulata''
Vallès, Valdés & Ortea, 2000
* ''
Limacia antofagastensis''
Uribe, Sepúlveda, Goddard & Valdés, 2017
* ''
Limacia clavigera''
(O. F. Müller, 1776)
* ''
Limacia cockerelli''
(MacFarland, 1905)
* ''
Limacia iberica''
Caballer Gutiérrez, Almón Pazos, Pérez Dieste, 2015[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.]
* ''
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
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Polyceridae
Gastropod genera