Limacia lucida is a sea slug, a species of dorid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.[2]
| Limacia lucida | |
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| Orange clubbed nudibranch near Photographers Reef, Simon's Town. | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | L. lucida
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| Limacia lucida (Stimpson, 1854)[1]
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Distribution edit
Limacia lucida was described from Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. It has been treated as a synonym of Limacia clavigera.[3]
References edit
- ^ Stimpson, W. (1856) Description of some new marine invertebrates. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 7(10): 385-395.
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Limacia lucida (Stimpson, 1854). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-12-22
- ^ Caballer Gutiérrez, M., Almón Pazos, B., Pérez Dieste, J., (2015) The sea slug genus Limacia Müller, 1781 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) in Europe. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 57:35-42.