Polybranchia (gastropod)

Polybranchia is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Hermaeidae.^[2]

Polybranchia
A live individual of Polybranchia orientalis, head end towards the top of the image
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Family:	Hermaeidae
Genus:	Polybranchia Pease, 1860[1]
Synonyms[2]
Branchophyllum Pruvot-Fol, 1947 Lobifera Pease, 1866 (Unnecessary substitute name for Polybranchia Pease, 1860) Phyllobranchillus Pruvot-Fol, 1933 Phyllobranchus Alder & Hancock, 1864 (Invalid: junior homonym of Phyllobranchus Girard, 1851 [Annelida]; Phyllobranchillus and Branchophyllum are replacement names)

Species

Species within the genus Polybranchia include:^[2]

• Polybranchia borgninii (Trinchese, 1896)
• Polybranchia orientalis (Kelaart, 1858)
• Polybranchia pallens (Burn, 1957)
• Polybranchia papillosa (Pease, 1866)
• Polybranchia pellucida Pease, 1860
• Polybranchia prasinus (Bergh, 1871)
• Polybranchia viridis (Deshayes, 1857)
• Polybranchia westralis Jensen, 1993
• Polybranchia sp. 1 from Kungkungan Bay, North Sulawesi, Indonesia^[3]