Limapontiidae

Limapontiidae
	Ercolania kencolesi inside of Boergesenia cf. forbesii. Locality: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. The length of the slug is about 0.5 cm
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superfamily:	Plakobranchoidea
Family:	Limapontiidae; Gray, 1847
Genera
	See text.
Synonyms
	Pontolimacidae Keferstein, 1863; Stiligeridae Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923; Oleidae O'Donoghue, 1926; Alderiidae Pruvot-Fol, 1954; Ercolaniinae Schmekel & Portmann, 1982; Costasiellidae K. B. Clark, 1984;

Limapontiidae is a taxonomic family of small to minute sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks.^[2]

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

References

^ Gray J. E. (1847). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 167.
^ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). Limapontiidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23063 on 2011-04-12
^ Jensen K. R. (1996). "Phylogenetic systematics and classification of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B Biological Sciences 351(1335 ): 91-122. doi:10.1098/rstb.1996.0006.
^ Händeler, K.; Grzymbowski, Y. P.; Krug, P. J.; Wägele, H. (2009). "Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells - a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life". Frontiers in Zoology. 6 (1): 28. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-6-28. PMC 2790442. PMID 19951407.
^ Swennen C. (31 August 2007). "Costasiella coronata, new species, and a revised diagnosis for the Family Costasiellidae (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa)". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55(2) Archived 22 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine: 355-362. PDF
^ Krug, P. J.; Wong, N. L. W.; Medina, M. R.; Gosliner, T. M.; Valdés, Á. A. (2018). "Cryptic speciation yields remarkable mimics: A new genus of sea slugs that masquerade as toxic algae (Caulerpa spp.)". Zoologica Scripta. 47 (6): 699–713. doi:10.1111/zsc.12310.

Jensen K.R. (2007) Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 55:255–281.

[1] Gray J. E. (1847). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 167.

[WoRMS-2] Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). Limapontiidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23063 on 2011-04-12

[3] Jensen K. R. (1996). "Phylogenetic systematics and classification of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B Biological Sciences 351(1335 ): 91-122. doi:10.1098/rstb.1996.0006.

[4] Händeler, K.; Grzymbowski, Y. P.; Krug, P. J.; Wägele, H. (2009). "Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells - a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life". Frontiers in Zoology. 6 (1): 28. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-6-28. PMC 2790442. PMID 19951407.

[5] Swennen C. (31 August 2007). "Costasiella coronata, new species, and a revised diagnosis for the Family Costasiellidae (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa)". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55(2) Archived 22 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine: 355-362. PDF

[krug-6] Krug, P. J.; Wong, N. L. W.; Medina, M. R.; Gosliner, T. M.; Valdés, Á. A. (2018). "Cryptic speciation yields remarkable mimics: A new genus of sea slugs that masquerade as toxic algae (Caulerpa spp.)". Zoologica Scripta. 47 (6): 699–713. doi:10.1111/zsc.12310.

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