Placida

Placida
Placida cremoniana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia informal group Opisthobranchia clade Sacoglossa clade Plakobranchacea
Superfamily:	Limapontioidea
Family:	Limapontiidae
Genus:	Placida Trinchese, 1876
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Laura Trinchese, 1873 (Invalid: junior homonym of Laura Lacaze-Duthiers, 1873; Placida is a replacement name )

Placida is a genus of very small or minute sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.^[1]

Although similar in appearance to nudibranchs, species in this genus are actually Sacoglossans.

Species

Species within this genus include:^[1]

• Placida barackobamai McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017
• Placida brevicornis (A. Costa, 1867)
• Placida brookae McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017
• Placida cremoniana (Trinchese, 1892)
• Placida daguilarensis Jensen, 1990
• Placida dakariensis (Pruvot-Fol, 1953)
• Placida dendritica (Alder and Hancock, 1843)
• Placida fralila Burn, 1966
• Placida kevinleei McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017
• Placida kingstoni T. E. Thompson, 1977
• Placida saronica (T.E. Thompson, 1988)
• Placida tardyi (Trinchese, 1873)
• Placida verticillata Ortea, 1981
• Placida viridis (Trinchese, 1873)

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• "Placida". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Jensen K.E. (2007) Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 55:255–281.