Ercolania kencolesi

Ercolania kencolesi is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Limapontiidae.

Ercolania kencolesi
Ercolania kencolesi inside of Boergesenia cf. forbesii. Locality: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. The length of the slug is about 0.5 cm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Sacoglossa

clade Plakobranchacea
Superfamily:
Limapontioidea
Family:
Limapontiidae
Genus:
Ercolania
Species:
E. kencolesi
Binomial name
Ercolania kencolesi
Grzymbowski, Stemmer & Wagele, 2007[1]

This sea slug lives on the alga Boergesenia forbesii and also within its tubes.[1][2] It also feed on this alga.[1]

References
  1. Grzymbowski, 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.
  2. Ercolania kencolesi Grzymbowski, Stemmer & Wagele, 2007. Sea Slug Forum, accessed 10 February 2010.


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