Alderia
| Alderia | |
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| illustration in A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca figures 1-5 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia informal groupOpisthobranchia clade Sacoglossa clade Plakobranchacea |
| Superfamily: | Limapontioidea |
| Family: | Limapontiidae |
| Genus: | Alderia George Allman, 1846[1] |
Alderia is a genus of sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae. These are sacoglossan sea slugs. The name Alderia first appeared in Thompson's 1844 Report on the fauna of Ireland[2] as a nomen nudum (Allmann MSS).
Species
Species within the genus Alderia include:
- Alderia modesta
- Alderia willowi
References
- ↑ George Allman, 1846 Note on a new genus of Nudibranchiate Mollusca Annals And Magazine of Natural History 17: 4 online
- ↑ Thompson. W. Report on the fauna of Ireland: Div. Invertebrata. Drawn up, at the request of the British Association. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1844;1843:245-29 online
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