Ercolania felina
| Ercolania felina | |
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| Live specimen of Ercolania felina | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Sacoglossa |
| Family: | Limapontiidae |
| Genus: | Ercolania |
| Species: | E. felina |
| Binomial name | |
| Ercolania felina (Hutton, 1882) | |
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Ercolania felina is a minute black species of sacoglossan or sap-sucking sea slug. It is a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Limapontiidae.[1]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off New Zealand.
References
[edit]- ↑ WoRMS (2012). Ercolania felina. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=494665 on 2012-09-26
- Hutton, F.W. (1882). Additions to the molluscan fauna of New Zealand. The New Zealand Journal of Science 1 (2): 69.
- Jensen K.R. (2007) Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 55:255–281.
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
Further reading
[edit]- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1