Ercolania

Ercolania is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.^[2]

Ercolania
Ercolania kencolesi inside the alga Boergesenia cf. forbesii.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Family:	Limapontiidae
Genus:	Ercolania Trinchese, 1872[1]

Ercolania on filamentous algae

Ercolania close-up.

Species

Species within the genus Ercolania include 24 valid species:^[3]

• Ercolania annelyleorum Wagele, Stemmer, Burghardt & Handeler, 2010^[4]
• Ercolania boodleae (Baba, 1938)
• Ercolania coerulea Trinchese, 1892
• Ercolania endophytophaga K. R. Jensen, 1999
• Ercolania erbsus (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1970)
• Ercolania evelinae (Marcus, 1959)
• Ercolania felina (Hutton, 1882)
• Ercolania fuscata (Gould, 1870)
• Ercolania gopalai (Rao, 1937)
• Ercolania halophilae K. R. Jensen, Kohnert, Bendell & Schrödl, 2014
• Ercolania irregularis (Eliot, 1904)
• Ercolania kencolesi Grzymbowski, Stemmer & Wagele, 2007^[5]
• Ercolania lozanoi Ortea, 1981
• Ercolania margaritae Burn, 1974
• Ercolania nigra (Lemche, 1936)
• Ercolania pica (Annandale & Prashad, 1922)
• Ercolania raorum (Marcus & Marcus, 1970)
• Ercolania selva Ortea & Espinosa, 2001
• Ercolania subviridis (Baba, 1959)
• Ercolania talis (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1956)
• Ercolania tentaculata (Eliot, 1917)
• Ercolania translucens Jensen, 1993
• Ercolania varians (Eliot, 1904)
• Ercolania viridis (A. Costa, 1866)
• Ercolania zanzibarica Eliot, 1903

Species brought into synonymy include

^[3]

• Ercolania costai Pruvot-Fol, 1951
• Ercolania cricetae (Marcus & Marcus, 1970)
• Ercolania emarginata Jensen, 1985
• Ercolania funerea (Costa, 1867)
• Ercolania nigrovittata (A. Costa, 1866)
• Ercolania nigrovittata (Rao & Rao, 1963)
• Ercolania pancerii Trinchese, 1872
• Ercolania siottii Trinchese, 1872
• Ercolania trinchesii Pruvot-Fol, 1951
• Ercolania uziellii Trinchese, 1872
• Ercolania vanellus Marcus, 1957

References

1. Trinchese S. (1872). Ann. Mus. Stor. nat. Genova 2: 86.
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138523 on 2020-11-05
3. Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.
4. Wagele, H., Stemmer, K., Burghardt, I., & Handeler, K. (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." Zootaxa 2676 (2010): 1-28.
5. Grzymbowski, Y., Stemmer, K. & Wagele, H. (2007). "On a new Ercolania Trinchese, 1872 (Opisthobranchia, Sacoglossa, Limapontiidae) living within Boergesenia Feldmann, 1950 (Cladophorales), with notes on anatomy, histology and biology". Zootaxa 1577: 3-16. pdf.

• Trinchese S. (1872). Un nuovo genere della famiglia degli eolidei Ercolania Trinchese. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 2: 86-132 + 10p
• Ortea, J., 1982. Moluscos Opistobranquios de las Islas Canarias. Boletín del Instituto Español de Oceanografía 6(327): 180-199
• Jensen, K.R. (2007). Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge. 55: 255–281.