Ercolania varians
Appearance
Ercolania varians | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Family: | Limapontiidae |
Genus: | Ercolania |
Species: | E. varians
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Binomial name | |
Ercolania varians (Eliot, 1904)
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Ercolania varians is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Limapontiidae.[1]
In 1904, Charles Eliot described ercolania varians as "brilliant green" with "numerous lines of deeper color" that could be digestive gland branches.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Ercolania varians (Eliot, 1904)". WoRMS. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
- ^ 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.