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
Genera (11): Alderella – Alderia – Alderiopsis – Calliopaea – Ercolania – Kerryclarkella – Limapontia – Olea – Placida – Sacoproteus – Stiliger
Name
Limapontiidae Gray, 1847
Limapontia depressa
References
Gray, J.E. 1847. A list of the genera of Recent Mollusca, their synonyms and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 129–219. BHL Reference page.
Galvão Filho, H., Paulay, G. & Krug, P.J. 2019. Eggs sunny-side up: A new species of Olea, an unusual oophagous sea slug (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Sacoglossa), from the western Atlantic. Zootaxa 4614(3): 541–565. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4614.3.7 Paywall Reference page.
Links
Limapontiidae in the World Register of Marine Species accessed on 2020-04-01
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.
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