Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Ringipleura > Superorder Nudipleura > Order Nudibranchia > Suborder Doridina > Infraorder Doridoidei > Superfamily Polyceroidea > Family Polyceridae > Subfamily Triophinae

Limacia O. F. Müller, 1781

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Limacia clavigera (O. F. Müller, 1776)
Limacia iberica Caballer, Almón & J. Pérez, 2016
Limacia inesae Toms, Pola, Von der Heyden & Gosliner, 2021

Literature

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.]. M. Hallager, Kiobenhavn (Copenhagen). 1:i-viii, 1-170, index i-iv, pls.1-40.
basis of record	Caballer Gutiérrez M., Almón Pazos B. & Pérez Dieste J. (2016). The sea slug genus Limacia Müller, 1781 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) in Europe. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 57: 35-42.
taxonomy source	Toms J.A., Pola M., Von der Heyden S. & Gosliner T.M. (2021). Disentangling species of the genus Limacia O.F. Müller, 1781, from southern Africa and Europe using integrative taxonomical methods, with the description of four new species. Marine Biodiversity. 51(1): 1-31.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Limacia O. F. Müller, 1781. 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:138368