Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Superorder Sacoglossa > Superfamily Plakobranchoidea > Family Limapontiidae > Genus Limapontia

Limapontia depressa Alder & Hancock, 1862

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Limapontia*	G. Johnston, 1836	accepted genus name
*Actaeonia*	[sic]	synonym
*Acteonia*	Quatrefages, 1844	synonym
*Cenia*	Alder & Hancock, 1848	synonym
*Chalidis*	Quatrefages, 1844	synonym
*Pontolimax*	Müller, 1848	synonym

Species group names

*Limapontia depressa olivaria*	Gascoigne, 1978	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: gewone schorreslak; kleine schorreslak; schorreslak; schorreslakje

Literature

original description	Alder, J.; Hancock, A. (1862). Descriptions of a new genus and some new species of naked Mollusca. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 3: 10:261-265.
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Limapontia depressa Alder & Hancock, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140230