Limapontiidae
Family of gastropods
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Limapontiidae is a taxonomic family of small to minute sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks.[2]
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| Ercolania kencolesi inside of Boergesenia cf. forbesii. Locality: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. The length of the slug is about 0.5 cm | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Sacoglossa |
| Superfamily: | Plakobranchoidea |
| Family: | Limapontiidae Gray, 1847[1] |
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These sea slugs resemble nudibranchs, but are not closely related to them. Most of the species are green because of the green algae they eat and live on.
In the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the former family Stiligeridae is described as a synonym of the family Limapontiidae Gray, 1847, belonging to the superfamily Limapontioidea Jensen, 1996.
This family has no subfamilies.
Genera
The following genera belong to the family Limapontiidae:[3][4]
- Alderella Odhner in Franc, 1968
- Alderia Allman, 1846
- Alderiopsis Baba, 1968
- Calliopaea d'Orbigny, 1837
- Costasiella Pruvot-Fol, 1951 - 15 species[5]
- Ercolania Trinchese, 1872
- Limapontia Johnston, 1836 - type genus
- Olea Agersborg, 1923
- Placida Trinchese, 1876
- Sacoproteus Krug et al. 2018[6]
- Stiliger Ehrenberg, 1831
- Genera brought into synonymy
- Alderina Pruvot-Fol, 1954 : synonym of Alderella Odhner in Franc, 1968
- Chalidis Quatrefages, 1844 : synonym of Limapontia Johnston, 1836
- Custiphorus Deshayes, 1853 : synonym of Calliopaea d'Orbigny, 1837
- Laura Trinchese, 1873 : synonym of Placida Trinchese, 1876
