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Limacia lucida

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Species of gastropod

Limacia lucida
Orange clubbed nudibranch near Photographers Reef, Simon's Town.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Polyceroidea
Family: Polyceridae
Genus: Limacia
Species: L. lucida
Binomial name
Limacia lucida
(Stimpson, 1854)

Limacia lucida is a sea slug, a species of dorid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.

Distribution

Limacia lucida was described from Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. It has been treated as a synonym of Limacia clavigera.

References

  1. Stimpson, W. (1856) Description of some new marine invertebrates. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 7(10): 385-395.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Limacia lucida (Stimpson, 1854). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-12-22
  3. 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.
Taxon identifiers
Limacia lucida
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