Ercolania is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.[2]
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| Ercolania kencolesi inside the alga Boergesenia cf. forbesii. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Limapontiidae |
| Genus: | Ercolania Trinchese, 1872[1] |
Species
editSpecies within the genus Ercolania include 24 valid species:[3]
- Ercolania annelyleorum Wagele, Stemmer, Burghardt & Handeler, 2010[4]
- Ercolania boodleae (Baba, 1938)
- Ercolania coerulea Trinchese, 1892
- Ercolania endophytophaga K. R. Jensen, 1999
- Ercolania erbsus (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1970)
- Ercolania evelinae (Marcus, 1959)
- Ercolania felina (Hutton, 1882)
- Ercolania fuscata (Gould, 1870)
- Ercolania gopalai (Rao, 1937)
- Ercolania halophilae K. R. Jensen, Kohnert, Bendell & Schrödl, 2014
- Ercolania irregularis (Eliot, 1904)
- Ercolania kencolesi Grzymbowski, Stemmer & Wagele, 2007[5]
- Ercolania lozanoi Ortea, 1981
- Ercolania margaritae Burn, 1974
- Ercolania nigra (Lemche, 1936)
- Ercolania pica (Annandale & Prashad, 1922)
- Ercolania raorum (Marcus & Marcus, 1970)
- Ercolania selva Ortea & Espinosa, 2001
- Ercolania subviridis (Baba, 1959)
- Ercolania talis (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1956)
- Ercolania tentaculata (Eliot, 1917)
- Ercolania translucens Jensen, 1993
- Ercolania varians (Eliot, 1904)
- Ercolania viridis (A. Costa, 1866)
- Ercolania zanzibarica Eliot, 1903
- Species brought into synonymy include
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- Ercolania costai Pruvot-Fol, 1951
- Ercolania cricetae (Marcus & Marcus, 1970)
- Ercolania emarginata Jensen, 1985
- Ercolania funerea (Costa, 1867)
- Ercolania nigrovittata (A. Costa, 1866)
- Ercolania nigrovittata (Rao & Rao, 1963)
- Ercolania pancerii Trinchese, 1872
- Ercolania siottii Trinchese, 1872
- Ercolania trinchesii Pruvot-Fol, 1951
- Ercolania uziellii Trinchese, 1872
- Ercolania vanellus Marcus, 1957
References
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- ^ Trinchese S. (1872). Ann. Mus. Stor. nat. Genova 2: 86.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138523 on 2020-11-05
- ^ a b Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.
- ^ Wagele, H., Stemmer, K., Burghardt, I., & Handeler, K. (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." Zootaxa 2676 (2010): 1-28.
- ^ Grzymbowski, Y., Stemmer, K. & Wagele, H. (2007). "On a new Ercolania Trinchese, 1872 (Opisthobranchia, Sacoglossa, Limapontiidae) living within Boergesenia Feldmann, 1950 (Cladophorales), with notes on anatomy, histology and biology". Zootaxa 1577: 3-16. pdf.
- Trinchese S. (1872). Un nuovo genere della famiglia degli eolidei Ercolania Trinchese. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 2: 86-132 + 10p
- Ortea, J., 1982. Moluscos Opistobranquios de las Islas Canarias. Boletín del Instituto Español de Oceanografía 6(327): 180-199
- Jensen, K.R. (2007). Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge. 55: 255–281.