Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Superorder Sacoglossa > Superfamily Plakobranchoidea > Family Limapontiidae > Genus Limapontia

Limapontia capitata (O. F. Müller, 1774)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Limapontia*	G. Johnston, 1836	accepted genus name
*Actaeonia*	[sic]	synonym
*Acteonia*	Quatrefages, 1844	synonym
*Cenia*	Alder & Hancock, 1848	synonym
*Chalidis*	Quatrefages, 1844	synonym
*Pontolimax*	Müller, 1848	synonym

Species group names

*Chalidis coerulea*	Quatrefages, 1844	synonym
*Chalidis nigricans*	Alder & Hancock, 1847	synonym; nom. nud.
*Limapontia nigra*	G. Johnston, 1835	synonym
*Pontolimax varians*	H. A. Meyer & Möbius, 1865	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

Dutch: gewone schorreslak; kleine schorreslak sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: broad-headed lanceolate sea slug sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: breitköpfige Lanzettschnecke

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Limapontia capitata (O. F. Müller, 1774). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140229