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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: Placida
Synonyms (1): Laura

Species (11): P. brevicornis – P. cremoniana – P. daguilarensis – P. dakariensis – P. dendritica – P. fralila – P. kingstoni – P. saronica – P. tardyi – P. verticillata – P. viridis

Unaccepted species (1): P. aoteana
Name

Placida Trinchese, 1876

References
Links

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). Placida. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138524 on 2012-05-22

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

Placida is a genus of very small or minute sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.[1]

Although similar in appearance to nudibranchs, species in this genus are actually Sacoglossans.
Species

Species within this genus include:[1]

Placida aoteana (Powell, 1937)
Placida babai Ev. Marcus, 1982
Placida barackobamai McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017
Placida brevirhina (Trinchese, 1874)
Placida brookae McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017
Placida cremoniana (Trinchese, 1892)
Placida dakariensis (Pruvot-Fol, 1953)
Placida dendritica (Alder and Hancock, 1843)
Placida fralila Burn, 1966
Placida kevinleei McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017
Placida kingstoni T. E. Thompson, 1977
Placida saronica (T.E. Thompson, 1988)
Placida sudamericana Cetra, Gutiérrez Gregoric & Roche, 2021
Placida tardyi (Trinchese, 1873)
Placida verticillata Ortea, 1981
Placida viridis (Trinchese, 1873)

Synonyms

Placida brevicornis (A. Costa, 1867): synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)

Taxa inquirenda

Placida capensis Macnae, 1954
Placida daguilarensis Jensen, 1990 (taxon inquirendum)

References

WoRMS : Placida accessed : 13 October 2010]

Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
"Placida". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Jensen K.E. (2007) Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 55:255–281.

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