Placida

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

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

Species

Species within this genus include:

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

• Placida brevicornis <small>(A. Costa, 1867)</small>: synonym of Placida dendritica <small>(Alder & Hancock, 1843)</small>

• Placida capensis <small>Macnae, 1954</small>
• Placida daguilarensis <small>Jensen, 1990</small> (taxon inquirendum)

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
• Jensen K.E. (2007) Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 55:255–281.

External links

• Anonymous. (1873). 19ª Sessione ordinaria, 3 aprile 1873 (preliminary presentation of Trinchese's Memoir to be published in 1874, making some names available). Rendiconto delle sessioni della R. Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, Classe di scienze fisiche. 1872-1873: 133-134