Ercolania is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.
Species
Species within the genus Ercolania include 24 valid species:
- Ercolania annelyleorum <small>Wagele, Stemmer, Burghardt & Handeler, 2010</small>
- Ercolania boodleae <small>(Baba, 1938)</small>
- Ercolania coerulea <small>Trinchese, 1892</small>
- Ercolania endophytophaga <small>K. R. Jensen, 1999</small>
- Ercolania erbsus <small>(Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1970)</small>
- Ercolania evelinae <small>(Marcus, 1959)</small>
- Ercolania felina <small>(Hutton, 1882)</small>
- Ercolania fuscata <small>(Gould, 1870)</small>
- Ercolania gopalai <small>(Rao, 1937)</small>
- Ercolania halophilae <small>K. R. Jensen, Kohnert, Bendell & Schrödl, 2014</small>
- Ercolania irregularis <small>(Eliot, 1904)</small>
- Ercolania kencolesi <small>Grzymbowski, Stemmer & Wagele, 2007</small>
- Ercolania lozanoi <small>Ortea, 1981</small>
- Ercolania margaritae <small>Burn, 1974</small>
- Ercolania nigra <small>(Lemche, 1936)</small>
- Ercolania pica <small>(Annandale & Prashad, 1922)</small>
- Ercolania raorum <small>(Marcus & Marcus, 1970)</small>
- Ercolania selva <small>Ortea & Espinosa, 2001</small>
- Ercolania subviridis <small>(Baba, 1959)</small>
- Ercolania talis <small>(Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1956)</small>
- Ercolania tentaculata <small>(Eliot, 1917)</small>
- Ercolania translucens <small>Jensen, 1993</small>
- Ercolania varians <small>(Eliot, 1904)</small>
- Ercolania viridis <small>(A. Costa, 1866)</small>
- Ercolania zanzibarica <small>Eliot, 1903</small>
Species brought into synonymy include:
- Ercolania costai <small>Pruvot-Fol, 1951</small>
- Ercolania cricetae <small>(Marcus & Marcus, 1970)</small>
- Ercolania emarginata <small>Jensen, 1985</small>
- Ercolania funerea <small>(Costa, 1867)</small>
- Ercolania nigrovittata <small>(A. Costa, 1866)</small>
- Ercolania nigrovittata <small>(Rao & Rao, 1963)</small>
- Ercolania pancerii <small>Trinchese, 1872</small>
- Ercolania siottii <small>Trinchese, 1872</small>
- Ercolania trinchesii <small>Pruvot-Fol, 1951</small>
- Ercolania uziellii <small>Trinchese, 1872</small>
- Ercolania vanellus <small>Marcus, 1957</small>
References
- 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. BoletÃÂn del Instituto Español de OceanografÃÂa 6(327): 180-199
- Jensen, K.R. (2007). Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge. 55: 255âÂÂ281.