Limacia

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title: "Limacia" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["polyceridae", "gastropod-genera"] description: "Genus of gastropods" topic_path: "general/polyceridae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limacia" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of gastropods ::

For the genus of plants, see Limacia (plant)

| image = Limacia clavigera-JR01.jpg | image_caption = Limacia clavigera grazing on the bryozoan Membranipora membranacea | taxon = Limacia | authority = Muller, 1781 | synonyms_ref= | synonyms=

• Euphurus Rafinesque, 1815
• Laila MacFarland, 1905

Limacia is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Polyceridae.

Species

Species within the genus Limacia include:

• Limacia annulata Vallès, Valdés & Ortea, 2000
• Limacia antofagastensis Uribe, Sepúlveda, Goddard & Valdés, 2017
• Limacia clavigera (O. F. Müller, 1776)
• Limacia cockerelli (MacFarland, 1905)
• Limacia iberica Caballer Gutiérrez, Almón Pazos, Pérez Dieste, 2015
• Limacia inesae Toms, Pola, Von der Heyden & Gosliner, 2021
• Limacia janssi (Bertsch & Ferreira, 1974)
• Limacia jellyi Toms, Pola, Von der Heyden & Gosliner, 2021
• Limacia langavi Toms, Pola, Von der Heyden & Gosliner, 2021
• Limacia lucida (Stimpson, 1854)
• Limacia mcdonaldi Uribe, Sepúlveda, Goddard & Valdés, 2017
• Limacia miali Toms, Pola, Von der Heyden & Gosliner, 2021
• Limacia ornata (Baba, 1937)

References

References

1. MolluscaBase (2018). [http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138368 ''Limacia'' O. F. Müller, 1781.] Accessed on 2021-01-12.
2. Uribe R.A., Sepúlveda F., Goddard J.H.R. & Valdés Á. (2017). [https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0676-5 ''Integrative systematics of the genus ''Limacia'' O. F. Müller, 1781 (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Nudibranchia, Polyceridae) in the Eastern Pacific.''] Marine Biodiversity. DOI 10.1007/s12526-017-0676-5
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.

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