Hermaeidae

Hermaeidae is a taxonomic family of sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plakobranchoidea.

Hermaeidae
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
Genera

See text

Synonyms
  • Caliphyllidae Tiberi, 1881
  • Jenseneriidae Ortea & Moro, 2015
  • Lobiferidae Pruvot-Fol, 1947
  • Phyllobranchidae Bergh, 1871 ( invalid family name: type * a junior homonym of Phyllobranchus Girard, 1851)
  • Phyllobranchillidae Risbec, 1953
  • Polybranchiidae O'Donoghue, 1929

This family has no subfamilies.

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