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Taxonomy
Family:
LIMAPONTIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Sacoglossa (Superorder)
> Plakobranchoidea (Superfamily)
> Limapontiidae (Family)
> Ercolania (Genus)
> boodleae (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Stiliger (Ercolania) Trinchese, 1872
Synonymised Names:
=Ercolania emarginata K.R. Jensen, 1985
=Stiliger boodleae Baba, 1938
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Taxonomy
Family:
LIMAPONTIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Sacoglossa (Superorder)
> Plakobranchoidea (Superfamily)
> Limapontiidae (Family)
> Ercolania (Genus)
> boodleae (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Stiliger (Ercolania) Trinchese, 1872
Synonymised Names:
=Ercolania emarginata K.R. Jensen, 1985
=Stiliger boodleae Baba, 1938
Details: Ercolania boodleae (Baba, 1938)
Size/Grows to:
Animal 15mm
Distribution:
Originally north-western Pacific, from Russia to Hong Kong, and Japan. Recently spread, and now established in the Gulf of California and southern Australia. Now also recorded from northern NZ
Geographical Range:
A
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Jensen, K.R. 2007 Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia), Bonner Zoologische Beiträge, 55 (p.266)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil