Ercolania is a genus of small sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ercolania Trinchese, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138523 on 2020-11-05
Species Species within the genus Ercolania include 24 valid species:Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" . Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281. Ercolania annelyleorum Wagele, Stemmer, Burghardt & Handeler, 2010Wagele, H., Stemmer, K., Burghardt, I., & Handeler, K. (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." Zootaxa 2676 (2010): 1-28. Ercolania boodleae (Baba, 1938) Ercolania coerulea Trinchese, 1892 Ercolania endophytophaga K. R. Jensen, 1999 Ercolania erbsus (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1970) Ercolania evelinae (Marcus, 1959) Ercolania felina (Hutton, 1882) Ercolania fuscata (Gould, 1870) Ercolania gopalai (Rao, 1937) Ercolania halophilae K. R. Jensen, Kohnert, Bendell & Schrödl, 2014 Ercolania irregularis (Eliot, 1904) Ercolania kencolesi Grzymbowski, Stemmer & Wagele, 2007Grzymbowski, Y., Stemmer, K. & Wagele, H. (2007). "On a new Ercolania Trinchese, 1872 (Opisthobranchia, Sacoglossa, Limapontiidae) living within Boergesenia Feldmann, 1950 (Cladophorales), with notes on anatomy, histology and biology". Zootaxa 1577: 3-16. pdf. Ercolania lozanoi Ortea, 1981 Ercolania margaritae Burn, 1974 Ercolania nigra (Lemche, 1936) Ercolania pica (Annandale & Prashad, 1922) Ercolania raorum (Marcus & Marcus, 1970) Ercolania selva Ortea & Espinosa, 2001 Ercolania subviridis (Baba, 1959) Ercolania talis (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1956) Ercolania tentaculata (Eliot, 1917) Ercolania translucens Jensen, 1993 Ercolania varians (Eliot, 1904) Ercolania viridis (A. Costa, 1866) Ercolania zanzibarica Eliot, 1903 Species brought into synonymy include Ercolania costai Pruvot-Fol, 1951 Ercolania cricetae (Marcus & Marcus, 1970) Ercolania emarginata Jensen, 1985 Ercolania funerea (Costa, 1867) Ercolania nigrovittata (A. Costa, 1866) Ercolania nigrovittata (Rao & Rao, 1963) Ercolania pancerii Trinchese, 1872 Ercolania siottii Trinchese, 1872 Ercolania trinchesii Pruvot-Fol, 1951 Ercolania uziellii Trinchese, 1872 Ercolania vanellus Marcus, 1957
References
Trinchese S. (1872). Un nuovo genere della famiglia degli eolidei Ercolania Trinchese. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 2: 86-132 + 10p Ortea, J., 1982. Moluscos Opistobranquios de las Islas Canarias. Boletín del Instituto Español de Oceanografía 6(327): 180-199 Jensen, K.R. (2007). Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge. 55: 255–281.