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Ercolania varians

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Species of gastropod
Ercolania varians
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Limapontiidae
Genus: Ercolania
Species: E. varians
Binomial name
Ercolania varians
(Eliot, 1904)

Ercolania varians is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Limapontiidae.

In 1904, Charles Eliot described ercolania varians as "brilliant green" with "numerous lines of deeper color" that could be digestive gland branches.

References

  1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Ercolania varians (Eliot, 1904)". WoRMS. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  2. Wägele, Heike; Stemmer, Kristina; Burghardt, Ingo; Händeler, Katharina (2010). "Two new sacoglossan sea slug species (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda): Ercolania annelyleorum sp. nov. (Limapontioidea) and Elysia asbecki sp. nov (Plakobranchoidea), with notes on anatomy, histology and biology" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2676: 1–28 – via EBSCOHost.
Taxon identifiers
Ercolania varians


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