Stiligeridae

Taxobox
name = Stiligeridae


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Opisthobranchia
subordo = Sacoglossa
familia = Stiligeridae
familia_authority = Iredale, T. & C.H. O'Donoghue, 1923 cite journal | author=Tom Iredale & O'Donoghue| title=List of British nudibranchiata mollusca| journal=Proceedings of the malacological Society of London| year=1923| volume=15| issue=4| pages=195–233]
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.

Stiligeridae is a taxonomic family of small to minute sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks.

These sea slugs resembling nudibranchs, but are not closely related to them. Most of the species are green because of the green algae they eat and live on.

In the new taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the family Stiligeridae is described as a synonym of the family Limapontiidae Gray, 1847 .

Genera in the family Stiligeridae

* "Alderia" Allman, 1845
* "Aplysiopsis" Deshayes, 1835
* "Ercolania" Trinchese, 1872
* "Hermaea" Loven, 1844
* "Hermaeopsis" Da Costa, 1869
* "Olea" Agersborg, 1923
* "Placida" Trinchese, 1876
* "Stiliger" Ehrenberg, 1831

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References

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