Limacia Explained

For the genus of plants, see Limacia (plant)

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

Species

Species within the genus Limacia include:

• 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)

Notes and References

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.