Hermaeidae is a taxonomic family of sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plakobranchoidea.[1]
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| Hermaea variopicta | |
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| Drawing of Hermaea bifida from Kunstformen der Natur (1904) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Infraclass: | Euthyneura |
| Superorder: | Sacoglossa |
| Superfamily: | Plakobranchoidea |
| Family: | Hermaeidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 |
| Type genus | |
| Hermaea Lovén, 1844
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This family has no subfamilies.
Genera
editJensen (1996)[2] listed three genera Aplysiopsis, Hermaea and Hermaeopsis A. Costa, 1869, which has been synonymized with * Hermaea.
Jensen (2007)[3] listed two valid genera in the family Hermaeidae:
- Aplysiopsis Deshayes, 1839–53
- Caliphylla A. Costa, 1867
- Cyerce Bergh, 1870
- Hermaea Lovèn, 1844 - type *
- Mourgona Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1970
- Polybranchia Pease, 1860
- Sohgenia Hamatani, 1991
- Genera brought into synonymy
- Beccaria Trinchese, 1870: synonym of Caliphylla A. Costa, 1867
- Branchophyllum Pruvot-Fol, 1947: synonym of Polybranchia Pease, 1860 (invalid: junior objective synonym of Phyllobranchillus, an earlier replacement name by the same author for the same homonym.)
- Hermaeina Trinchese, 1874: synonym of Aplysiopsis Deshayes, 1853
- Hermaeopsis A. Costa, 1869: synonym of Hermaea Lovén, 1844
- Jenseneria Ortea & Moro, 2015: synonym of Mourgona Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1970
- Lobiancoia Trinchese, 1881: synonym of Cyerce Bergh, 1870
- Lobifera Pease, 1866: synonym of Polybranchia Pease, 1860 (Unnecessary substitute name for Polybranchia Pease, 1860)
- Phyllobranchillus Pruvot-Fol, 1933: synonym of Polybranchia Pease, 1860
- Phyllobranchopsis Eliot, 1905: synonym of Aplysiopsis Bergh, 1898: synonym of Aplysia Linnaeus, 1767
- Phyllobranchus Alder & Hancock, 1864: synonym of Polybranchia Pease, 1860 (Invalid: junior homonym of Phyllobranchus Girard, 1851 [Annelida]; Phyllobranchillus and Branchophyllum are replacement names)
- Physopneumon A. Costa, 1864: synonym of Hermaea Lovén, 1844
- Polybranchea: synonym of Polybranchia Pease, 1860
- Polybranchus: synonym of Polybranchia Pease, 1860
Other invalid species within family Hermaeidae include:[3]
- Physopneumon carneum A. Costa, 1862
References
edit- ^ Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
- ^ Jensen K. R. (1996). "Phylogenetic systematics and classification of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B Biological Sciences 351(1335 ): 91-122. doi:10.1098/rstb.1996.0006.
- ^ a b 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.
- Moro L. & Ortea J. (2015). Nuevos taxones de babosas marinas de las islas Canarias y de Cabo Verde (Mollusca: Heterobranchia). Vieraea. 43: 21-86.
- Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526
External links
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