Cuthona zelandica

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Cuthona zelandica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda Superorder: Heterobranchia Order: Opisthobranchia Suborder: Nudibranchia Superfamily: Aeolidioidea Family: Aeolidiidae Genus: Cuthona Alder and Hancock, 1855 Species: C. zelandica
Binomial name
Cuthona zelandica Odhner, 1924

Cuthona zelandica is a species of small sea slug or aolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aeolidiidae.

[edit] Distribution

This species is found at New Zealand's sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands.

[edit] Description

This is a small elongated species, with long smooth rhinophores, equalling the cephalic tentacles in length. The dorsal papillae are elongated also, set in about 15 transverse rows.

Coloration is whitish, with the papillae pale brown, white at the tips.

Length is up to 15 mm.

[edit] References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1