Umbraculum (gastropod)

Umbraculum, common name the "umbrella slugs", is a genus of unusual^[how?] sea snails or false limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Umbraculidae.^[2]

Umbraculum
Detailed illustration of Umbraculum umbraculum from 1852
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Euopisthobranchia
Family:	Umbraculidae
Genus:	Umbraculum Schumacher, 1817[1]
Species
See text
Synonyms[2]
Gastroplax Blainville, 1819 Operculatum Mörch, 1852 Umbrella Lamarck, 1819

Species

There are probably only two species in the genus Umbraculum.^[3]

• Umbraculum ovale (Carpenter, 1856)
• Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786) - Atlantic umbrella slug.

Other synonymised taxa

• Umbraculum bermudense (Mörch, 1875): synonym of Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Umbraculum botanicum (Hedley, 1923): synonym of Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Umbraculum indicum (Lamarck, 1819): synonym of Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Umbraculum mediterraneum (Lamarck, 1819): synonym of Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Umbraculum ovalis (Carpenter, 1856): synonym of Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Umbraculum plicatulum (Martens, 1881): synonym of Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Umbraculum pulchrum (Lin, 1981): synonym of Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Umbrella indica (Lamarck, 1819): synonym of Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Umbrella mediterranea (Lamarck, 1819):^[4] synonym of Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Umbraculum rushii Dall, 1889: synonym of Plesiothyreus rushii (Dall, 1889)
• Umbraculum sinicum (Gmelin, 1791):^[5] synonym of Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786)