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Ercolania varians

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Ercolania varians
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Limapontiidae
Genus: Ercolania
Species:
E. varians
Binomial name
Ercolania varians
(Eliot, 1904)

Ercolania varians is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Limapontiidae.[1]

In 1904, Charles Eliot described ercolania varians as "brilliant green" with "numerous lines of deeper color" that could be digestive gland branches.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Ercolania varians (Eliot, 1904)". WoRMS. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  2. ^ Wägele, Heike; Stemmer, Kristina; Burghardt, Ingo; Händeler, Katharina (2010). "Two new sacoglossan sea slug species (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda): Ercolania annelyleorum sp. nov. (Limapontioidea) and Elysia asbecki sp. nov (Plakobranchoidea), with notes on anatomy, histology and biology" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2676: 1–28 – via EBSCOHost.