Placida

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

For the town in the United States, see Placida, Florida.

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 )

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
  1. WoRMS : Placida accessed : 13 October 2010]
  • 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.


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