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Ercolania irregularis

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Ercolania irregularis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Family: Limapontiidae
Genus: Ercolania
Species:
E. irregularis
Binomial name
Ercolania irregularis
(Eliot, 1904)

Ercolania irregularis is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shelless marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Limapontiidae.[1]

In his 1904 paper, C. Eliot described ercolania irregularis "with posterior cerata which are twice as long as the front ones".[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Ercolania irregularis (Eliot, 1905)". WoRMS, World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  2. ^ Wägele, Heike; Stemmer, Kristina; Burghardt, Ingo; Händeler, Katharina (2010). "Two new sacoglossan sea slug species (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda): Ercolania annelyleorum sp. nov. (Limapontioidea) and Elysia asbecki sp. nov (Plakobranchoidea), with notes on anatomy, histology and biology" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2676: 1–28 – via EBSCOHost.