Hermaeidae is a taxonomic family of sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plakobranchoidea.[1]
Hermaeidae | |
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Hermaea variopicta | |
Drawing of Hermaea bifida from Kunstformen der Natur (1904) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Infraclass: | Euthyneura |
Superorder: | Sacoglossa |
Superfamily: | Plakobranchoidea |
Family: | Hermaeidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 |
Type genus | |
Hermaea Lovén, 1844
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Genera | |
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Synonyms | |
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This family has no subfamilies.
Jensen (1996)[2] listed three genera Aplysiopsis, Hermaea and Hermaeopsis A. Costa, 1869, which has been synonymized with * Hermaea.
Jensen (2007)[3] listed two valid genera in the family Hermaeidae:
Other invalid species within family Hermaeidae include:[3]