title: Hermaea (gastropod)
text: # Hermaea (gastropod)
  
  Hermaea is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Hermaeidae.
  
  Hermaea is the type genus of the family Hermaeidae.
  
  ## Species
  
  Species within the genus Hermaea include 13 valid species:
  
  * Hermaea bifida (Montagu, 1816)
  * Hermaea boucheti Cervera, Garcia-Gomez & Ortea, 1991
  * Hermaea coirala Marcus, 1955
  * Hermaea cantabra Caballer & Ortea, 2015
  * Hermaea coirala Marcus, 1955
  * Hermaea conejera Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2016
  * Hermaea cruciata Gould, 1870
  * Hermaea cubana Caballer & Ortea, 2013
  * Hermaea dakariensis Pruvot-Fol, 1953
  * Hermaea evelinemarcusae Jensen, 1993
  * Hermaea ghanensis Caballer, Ortea & Moro, 2006
  * Hermaea hillae Marcus & Marcus, 1967
  * Hermaea minor Bergh, 1888 (taxon inquirendum)
  * Hermaea nautica Caballer & Ortea, 2007
  * Hermaea noto (Baba, 1959)
  * Hermaea oliviae (MacFarland, 1966)
  * Hermaea paucicirra Pruvot-Fol, 1953
  * Hermaea vancouverensis O'Donoghue, 1924
  * Hermaea variopicta (A. Costa, 1869)
  * Hermaea wrangeliae (Ichikawa, 1993)
  * Hermaea zosterae (Baba, 1959)
  
  ### Species brought into synonymy
  
  * Hermaea aoteana Powell, 1937: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  * Hermaea brevicornis Costa A., 1867: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  * Hermaea capensis Macnae, 1954: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  * Hermaea carminis Fez, 1962: synonym of Placida cremoniana (Trinchese, 1892)
  * Hermaea cremoniana Trinchese, 1892: synonym of Placida cremoniana (Trinchese, 1892)
  * Hermaea dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843): synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  * Hermaea hancockii Trinchese, 1877: synonym of Hermaea bifida (Montagu, 1816)
  * Hermaea kingstoni (T. E. Thompson, 1977): synonym of Placida kingstoni T. E. Thompson, 1977
  * Hermaea lutescens A. Costa, 1866: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  * Hermaea orbicularis Costa A., 1866: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  * Hermaea ornata MacFarland, 1966: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  * Hermaea polychroma (Hesse, 1873): synonym of Hermaea variopicta (A. Costa, 1869)
  * Hermaea saronica Thompson T., 1988: synonym of Placida saronica (T. E. Thompson, 1988)
  * Hermaea venosa Lovén, 1845: synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  * Hermaea viridis Deshayes, 1857: synonym of Polybranchia viridis (Deshayes, 1857)
  