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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: Euthyneura
Cohors: Tectipleura
Subcohors: Panpulmonata
Superordo: Sacoglossa
Superfamilia: Plakobranchoidea

Familia: Limapontiidae
Genus: Ercolania
Species (25): E. annelyleorum – E. boodleae – E. coerulea – E. endophytophaga – E. erbsus – E. evelinae – E. felina – E. fuscata – E. gopalai – E. halophilae – E. irregularis – E. kencolesi – E. lozanoi – E. margaritae – E. nigra – E. pica – E. raorum – E. selva – E. siottii – E. subviridis – E. tentaculata – E. translucens – E. varians – E. viridis – E. zanzibarica
Name

Ercolania Trinchese, 1872

References
Links

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138523 on 2012-05-22

BHL bibliography
Ercolania – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Ercolania.
ION

Ercolania is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.[2]
Species

Species 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
[3]

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

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
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.

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