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