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Ercolania
Sign in to savethumb|Ercolania on filamentous algae thumb|A close-up of Ercolania viridis Ercolania is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- FamilyLimapontiidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 45
- With media
- 10
- Family
- Limapontiidae
- Collections
- CAS, USNM, SBMNH, UF
- Recorded in
- United States, Portugal, Philippines, Mexico, French Polynesia, Egypt, Malaysia, Panama
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- Parent taxon
- Limapontiidae
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- Ercolania kencolesi.png
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thumb|Ercolania on filamentous algae thumb|A close-up of Ercolania viridis Ercolania is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.
== Species == Species within the genus Ercolania include 24 valid species: Ercolania annelyleorum Wagele, Stemmer, Burghardt & Handeler, 2010 Ercolania boodleae (Baba, 1938) Ercolania coerulea Trinchese, 1892 Ercolania endophytophaga K. R. Jensen, 1999 Ercolania erbsus (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1970) Ercolania evelinae (Marcus, 1959) Ercolania felina (Hutton, 1882) Ercolania fuscata (Gould, 1870) Ercolania gopalai (Rao, 1937) Ercolania halophilae K. R. Jensen, Kohnert, Bendell & Schrödl, 2014 Ercolania irregularis (Eliot, 1904) Ercolania kencolesi Grzymbowski, Stemmer & Wagele, 2007 Ercolania lozanoi Ortea, 1981 Ercolania margaritae Burn, 1974 Ercolania nigra (Lemche, 1936) Ercolania pica (Annandale & Prashad, 1922) Ercolania raorum (Marcus & Marcus, 1970) Ercolania selva Ortea & Espinosa, 2001 Ercolania subviridis (Baba, 1959) Ercolania talis (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1956) Ercolania tentaculata (Eliot, 1917) Ercolania translucens Jensen, 1993 Ercolania varians (Eliot, 1904) Ercolania viridis (A. Costa, 1866) Ercolania zanzibarica Eliot, 1903 Species brought into synonymy include: Ercolania costai Pruvot-Fol, 1951 Ercolania cricetae (Marcus & Marcus, 1970) Ercolania emarginata Jensen, 1985 Ercolania funerea (Costa, 1867) Ercolania nigrovittata (A. Costa, 1866) Ercolania nigrovittata (Rao & Rao, 1963) Ercolania pancerii Trinchese, 1872 Ercolania siottii Trinchese, 1872 Ercolania trinchesii Pruvot-Fol, 1951 Ercolania uziellii Trinchese, 1872 Ercolania vanellus Marcus, 1957
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