Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Opisthobranchia > Order Sacoglossa > Suborder Plakobranchacea > Superfamily Limapontioidea > Family Limapontiidae > Genus Limapontia

Limapontia capitata (O. F. Müller, 1774)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Limapontia*	Johnston, 1836	accepted genus name
*Actaeonia*	Agassiz, 1846	synonym
*Acteonia*	Quatrefages, 1844	synonym
*Cenia*	Alder & Hancock, 1848	synonym
*Chalidis*	Quatrefages, 1844	synonym
*Pontolimax*	Müller, 1848	synonym

Species group names

*Chalidis caeruleus*	de Quatrefages, 1844	synonym
*Chalidis nigricans*	de Quatrefages, 1844	synonym
*Fasciola capitata*	Müller O.F., 1774	synonym
*Limapontia nigra*	Johnston, 1835	synonym
*Pontolimax varians*	Meyer & Möbius, 1865	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: slank limapontia sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: gewone schorreslak sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

German: breitköpfige Lanzettschnecke

Literature

original description	Muller, O.F. 1773-1774. Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaecorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Vol. 1, unpaginated preface, bibliography and table of contents, 32 pp., and 1-136 [1773]; pars altera, 1-72, and unpaginated index 10 pp.[1774]; vol. 2, pp. I-XXVI [= 1-36], 1-214 [1774]. Havniæ [Copenhagen]& Lipsiæ [Leipzig], Heineck & Faber.
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
additional source	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.

Genbank

Taxonomy

CLEMAM
WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (57 publications)
GBIF

Citation

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Limapontia capitata (O. F. Müller, 1774). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140229