Placida is a genus of very small or minute sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.^[1]

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Placida
Placida cremoniana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Superorder:	Sacoglossa
Superfamily:	Plakobranchoidea
Family:	Limapontiidae
Genus:	Placida Trinchese, 1876
Synonyms
Laura Trinchese, 1873 (Invalid: junior homonym of Laura Lacaze-Duthiers, 1873; Placida is a replacement name )

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Although similar in appearance to nudibranchs, species in this genus are actually Sacoglossans.

Species within this genus include:^[1]

• Placida aoteana (Powell, 1937)
• Placida babai Ev. Marcus, 1982
• Placida barackobamai McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017
• Placida brevirhina (Trinchese, 1874)
• Placida brookae McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017
• Placida cremoniana (Trinchese, 1892)
• Placida dakariensis (Pruvot-Fol, 1953)
• Placida dendritica (Alder and Hancock, 1843)
• Placida fralila Burn, 1966
• Placida kevinleei McCarthy, Krug & Valdés, 2017
• Placida kingstoni T. E. Thompson, 1977
• Placida saronica (T.E. Thompson, 1988)
• Placida sudamericana Cetra, Gutiérrez Gregoric & Roche, 2021
• Placida tardyi (Trinchese, 1873)
• Placida verticillata Ortea, 1981
• Placida viridis (Trinchese, 1873)

Synonyms

• Placida brevicornis (A. Costa, 1867): synonym of Placida dendritica (Alder & Hancock, 1843)

Taxa inquirenda

• Placida capensis Macnae, 1954
• Placida daguilarensis Jensen, 1990 (taxon inquirendum)