Stiliger cricetus Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1970

Gutiérrez, Manuel Caballer, Ortea, Jesús, Rivero, Nelsy, Tucker, Gabriela Carias, Malaquias, Manuel António E. & Narciso, Samuel, 2015, The opisthobranch gastropods (Mollusca: Heterobranchia) from Venezuela: an annotated and illustrated inventory of species, Zootaxa 4034 (2), pp. 201-256 : 224

62. Stiliger cricetus Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1970

Material examined. MC, 1 spc., H = 5 mm, JOC.

Ecology. On algae of the genus Bryopsis or Batophora oerstedi (1 m deep).

Distribution. ABC islands, Bahamas, Venezuela (Miloslavich et al. 2010: as Ercolania cricetus . Mochima Bay: Mollo et al. 1994).

Remarks. Mollo et al. (1994) redescribed and reinstated S. cricetus based on one specimen from Venezuela. Later, Valdés et al. (2006) recorded Ercolania coerulea in Venezuela and considered S. cricetus to be a synonym but no reasons were given to explain the synonymization. Due to the complex taxonomy of the Sacoglossa and the tendency for cryptic speciation in the group (Carmona et al. 2011), we maintain S. cricetus as a valid species until additional data is available. Venezuela is the southern geographical limit of the distribution of this species.