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Placida
Sign in to savePlacida is a genus of very small or minute sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.
Species
Common Tan Wave
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- FamilyLimapontiidae
Habitatmarine
Observations24,189
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 39
- With media
- 54
- Family
- Limapontiidae
- Collections
- CAS, SIO
- Recorded in
- Philippines, United States, South Africa, Singapore, Madagascar, Japan, Saudi Arabia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Limapontiidae
- Image
- Sacoglossa-Placida Cremoniana (16037118829).jpg
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- taxon name
- Placida
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Placida
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- Placida
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Encyclopedic overview
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Placida is a genus of very small or minute sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.
Although similar in appearance to nudibranchs, species in this genus are actually Sacoglossans.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Placida” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.