WoRMS taxon details
Limacia O. F. Müller, 1781
138368 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138368)
accepted
Genus
Doris clavigera O. F. Müller, 1776 accepted as Limacia clavigera (O. F. Müller, 1776) (type by subsequent designation)
Euphurus Rafinesque, 1815 · unaccepted
Laila MacFarland, 1905 · unaccepted
- Species Limacia annulata Vallès, Á. Valdés & Ortea, 2000
- Species Limacia antofagastensis R. Uribe, Sepúlveda, Goddard & Á. Valdés, 2017
- Species Limacia clavigera (O. F. Müller, 1776)
- Species Limacia cockerelli (MacFarland, 1905)
- Species Limacia iberica Caballer, Almón & J. Pérez, 2016
- Species Limacia inesae Toms, Pola, Von der Heyden & Gosliner, 2021
- Species Limacia janssi (Bertsch & A. J. Ferreira, 1974)
- Species Limacia jellyi Toms, Pola, Von der Heyden & Gosliner, 2021
- Species Limacia langavi Toms, Pola, Von der Heyden & Gosliner, 2021
- Species Limacia lucida (W. Stimpson, 1855)
- Species Limacia mcdonaldi R. Uribe, Sepúlveda, Goddard & Á. Valdés, 2017
- Species Limacia miali Toms, Pola, Von der Heyden & Gosliner, 2021
- Species Limacia ornata (Baba, 1937)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Müller, O.F. (1781). Zoologia Danica eller Danmarks og Norges sieldne og ubekiendte Dyrs Historie. [Zoologica Denmark, or the History of the Rare and Unknown Animals of Denmark and Norway.]. <em>M. Hallager, Kiobenhavn (Copenhagen).</em> 1:i-viii, 1-170, index i-iv, pls.1-40., available online at https://marcus.uib.no/instance/book/ubb-spesmag-f-0002.html
page(s): 66 [details]
page(s): 66 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Limacia O. F. Müller, 1781. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138368 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Müller, O.F. (1781). Zoologia Danica eller Danmarks og Norges sieldne og ubekiendte Dyrs Historie. [Zoologica Denmark, or the History of the Rare and Unknown Animals of Denmark and Norway.]. <em>M. Hallager, Kiobenhavn (Copenhagen).</em> 1:i-viii, 1-170, index i-iv, pls.1-40., available online at https://marcus.uib.no/instance/book/ubb-spesmag-f-0002.html
page(s): 66 [details]
original description (of Laila MacFarland, 1905) MacFarland, F. M. (1905). A preliminary account of the Dorididae of Monterey Bay, California. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 18: 35-54., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3336883
page(s): 46 [details]
basis of record Caballer Gutiérrez M., Almón Pazos B. & Pérez Dieste J. (2016). The sea slug genus <i>Limacia</i> Müller, 1781 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) in Europe. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 57: 35-42. [details]
page(s): 66 [details]
original description (of Laila MacFarland, 1905) MacFarland, F. M. (1905). A preliminary account of the Dorididae of Monterey Bay, California. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 18: 35-54., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3336883
page(s): 46 [details]
basis of record Caballer Gutiérrez M., Almón Pazos B. & Pérez Dieste J. (2016). The sea slug genus <i>Limacia</i> Müller, 1781 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) in Europe. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 57: 35-42. [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Toms J.A., Pola M., Von der Heyden S. & Gosliner T.M. (2021). Disentangling species of the genus <i>Limacia</i> O.F. Müller, 1781, from southern Africa and Europe using integrative taxonomical methods, with the description of four new species. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 51(1): 1-31., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-020-01125-0 [details] Available for editors 
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Authority The genussname Limacia is stated as valid by the ICZN (Op.833). [details]authority Müller, 1776 according to Rolán [details]
