Placida is a genus of very small or minute sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.WoRMS : Placida accessed : 13 October 2010]
Although similar in appearance to nudibranchs, species in this genus are actually Sacoglossans.
Species Species within this genus include: Placida aoteana (Powell, 1937) Placida babai Ev. Marcus, 1982 Placida barackobamai McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017 Placida brevirhina (Trinchese, 1874) Placida brookae McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017 Placida cremoniana (Trinchese, 1892) Placida dakariensis (Pruvot-Fol, 1953) Placida dendritica (Alder and Hancock, 1843) Placida fralila Burn, 1966 Placida kevinleei McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017 Placida kingstoni T. E. Thompson, 1977 Placida saronica (T.E. Thompson, 1988) Placida sudamericana Cetra, Gutiérrez Gregoric & Roche, 2021 Placida tardyi (Trinchese, 1873) Placida verticillata Ortea, 1981 Placida viridis (Trinchese, 1873) Synonyms Placida brevicornis (A. Costa, 1867): synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843) Taxa inquirenda Placida capensis Macnae, 1954 Placida daguilarensis Jensen, 1990 (taxon inquirendum)
References
Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
Jensen K.E. (2007) Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 55:255–281.
External links
Anonymous. (1873). 19ª Sessione ordinaria, 3 aprile 1873 (preliminary presentation of Trinchese's Memoir to be published in 1874, making some names available). Rendiconto delle sessioni della R. Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, Classe di scienze fisiche. 1872-1873: 133-134