Hermaea (gastropod)

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

Hermaea
A live individual of Hermaea variopicta in situ
Drawing of Hermaea bifida from Kunstformen der Natur (1904)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Family:	Hermaeidae
Genus:	Hermaea Lovén, 1844[1]
Type species
Doris bifida Montagu, 1816
Synonyms
Hermaeopsis A. Costa, 1869 Physopneumon A. Costa, 1864

Hermaea is the type genus of the family Hermaeidae.

Species

Species within the genus Hermaea include 13 valid species:^[3]

• Hermaea bifida (Montagu, 1816)
• Hermaea boucheti Cervera, Garcia-Gomez & Ortea, 1991
• Hermaea coirala Marcus, 1955
• Hermaea cantabra Caballer & Ortea, 2015
• Hermaea coirala Marcus, 1955
• Hermaea conejera Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2016
• Hermaea cruciata Gould, 1870
• Hermaea cubana Caballer & Ortea, 2013
• Hermaea dakariensis Pruvot-Fol, 1953
• Hermaea evelinemarcusae Jensen, 1993
• Hermaea ghanensis Caballer, Ortea & Moro, 2006
• Hermaea hillae Marcus & Marcus, 1967
• Hermaea minor Bergh, 1888 (taxon inquirendum)
• Hermaea nautica Caballer & Ortea, 2007
• Hermaea noto (Baba, 1959)
• Hermaea oliviae (MacFarland, 1966)
• Hermaea paucicirra Pruvot-Fol, 1953
• Hermaea vancouverensis O'Donoghue, 1924
• Hermaea variopicta (A. Costa, 1869)
• Hermaea wrangeliae (Ichikawa, 1993)
• Hermaea zosterae (Baba, 1959)

Species brought into synonymy

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• Hermaea aoteana Powell, 1937: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
• Hermaea brevicornis Costa A., 1867: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
• Hermaea capensis Macnae, 1954: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
• Hermaea carminis Fez, 1962: synonym of Placida cremoniana (Trinchese, 1892)
• Hermaea cremoniana Trinchese, 1892: synonym of Placida cremoniana (Trinchese, 1892)
• Hermaea dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843): synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
• Hermaea hancockii Trinchese, 1877: synonym of Hermaea bifida (Montagu, 1816)
• Hermaea kingstoni (T. E. Thompson, 1977): synonym of Placida kingstoni T. E. Thompson, 1977
• Hermaea lutescens A. Costa, 1866: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
• Hermaea orbicularis Costa A., 1866: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
• Hermaea ornata MacFarland, 1966: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
• Hermaea polychroma (Hesse, 1873): synonym of Hermaea variopicta (A. Costa, 1869)
• Hermaea saronica Thompson T., 1988: synonym of Placida saronica (T. E. Thompson, 1988)
• Hermaea venosa Lovén, 1845: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
• Hermaea viridis Deshayes, 1857: synonym of Polybranchia viridis (Deshayes, 1857)