Hermaea (gastropod)
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| A live individual of Hermaea variopicta in situ | |
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| Drawing of Hermaea bifida from Kunstformen der Natur (1904) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Hermaeidae |
| Genus: | Hermaea Lovén, 1844[1] |
| Type species | |
| Doris bifida Montagu, 1816
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Hermaea is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Hermaeidae.[2]
Hermaea is the type genus of the family Hermaeidae.
Species
[edit]Species within the genus Hermaea include 13 valid species:[3]
- Hermaea bifida (Montagu, 1816)
- Hermaea boucheti Cervera, Garcia-Gomez & Ortea, 1991
- Hermaea coirala Marcus, 1955
- Hermaea cantabra Caballer & Ortea, 2015
- Hermaea coirala Marcus, 1955
- Hermaea conejera Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2016
- Hermaea cruciata Gould, 1870
- Hermaea cubana Caballer & Ortea, 2013
- Hermaea dakariensis Pruvot-Fol, 1953
- Hermaea evelinemarcusae Jensen, 1993
- Hermaea ghanensis Caballer, Ortea & Moro, 2006
- Hermaea hillae Marcus & Marcus, 1967
- Hermaea minor Bergh, 1888 (taxon inquirendum)
- Hermaea nautica Caballer & Ortea, 2007
- Hermaea noto (Baba, 1959)
- Hermaea oliviae (MacFarland, 1966)
- Hermaea paucicirra Pruvot-Fol, 1953
- Hermaea vancouverensis O'Donoghue, 1924
- Hermaea variopicta (A. Costa, 1869)
- Hermaea wrangeliae (Ichikawa, 1993)
- Hermaea zosterae (Baba, 1959)
- Species brought into synonymy
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- Hermaea aoteana Powell, 1937: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
- Hermaea brevicornis Costa A., 1867: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
- Hermaea capensis Macnae, 1954: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
- Hermaea carminis Fez, 1962: synonym of Placida cremoniana (Trinchese, 1892)
- Hermaea cremoniana Trinchese, 1892: synonym of Placida cremoniana (Trinchese, 1892)
- Hermaea dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843): synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
- Hermaea hancockii Trinchese, 1877: synonym of Hermaea bifida (Montagu, 1816)
- Hermaea kingstoni (T. E. Thompson, 1977): synonym of Placida kingstoni T. E. Thompson, 1977
- Hermaea lutescens A. Costa, 1866: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
- Hermaea orbicularis Costa A., 1866: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
- Hermaea ornata MacFarland, 1966: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
- Hermaea polychroma (Hesse, 1873): synonym of Hermaea variopicta (A. Costa, 1869)
- Hermaea saronica Thompson T., 1988: synonym of Placida saronica (T. E. Thompson, 1988)
- Hermaea venosa Lovén, 1845: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
- Hermaea viridis Deshayes, 1857: synonym of Polybranchia viridis (Deshayes, 1857)
References
[edit]- ^ Lovén S. L. (1844). Ofvers. VetenskAkad. Förh. Stockh. 1(3): 50.
- ^ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Hermaea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138063 on 2015-04-29
- ^ 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.
External links
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Media related to Hermaea at Wikimedia Commons- Costa A. (1866-1869). Saggio sui molluschi eolididei del Golfo di Napoli. Annuario del Museo Zoologico della Reale Università di Napoli
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
