Limacia annulata
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| PRESERVED_SPECIMEN; Limacia annulata Vallès, Valdés & Ortea, 2000; Type status: PARATYPE; Identified by: N/A; Individual count: 1; Event date: N/A | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Superfamily: | Polyceroidea |
| Family: | Polyceridae |
| Genus: | Limacia |
| Species: | L. annulata
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| Binomial name | |
| Limacia annulata Vallès, Valdés & Ortea, 2000[1]
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Limacia annulata, is a sea slug, a species of dorid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.[2]
Description
[edit]Limacia annulata has small appendages, a whiteish body color with red or yellow markings, tiny bumps along their mantle edges, and spicules on their skin.[3]
The length of the species attains 5.6 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]Limacia annulata was described from Praia São Tiago, Bengo Province, 08°35′S 013°21′E / 8.583°S 13.350°E, Angola.[4]
References
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- ^ Vallès, Y.; Valdés, A.; Ortea, J. 2000. On the phanerobranch dorids of Angola (Mollusca, Nudibranchia): A crossroads of temperate and tropical species. Zoosystema, 22(1): 15-31.
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Limacia annulata Vallès, Valdés & Ortea, 2000. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-12-22
- ^ Caballer-Gutiérrez, Manuel; Almón, Bruno; Pérez, Jacinto (2015). "The sea slug genus Limacia Müller, 1781 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) in Europe". Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 57: 35–42.
- ^ Caballer Gutiérrez, M., Almón Pazos, B., Pérez Dieste, J., (2015) The sea slug genus Limacia Müller, 1781 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) in Europe. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 57:35-42.