Cuthona

Cuthona
Cuthona sibogae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida

Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Tergipedidae
Subfamily: Cuthoninae
Genus: Cuthona
Alder & Hancock, 1855

Cuthona is a genus of nudibranch in the family Tergipedidae. It feeds on hydroids, and has polydentate radular teeth.[1]

Cuthona is the type genus of the subfamily Cuthoninae.

Species

Species in the genus Cuthona include[2][3]:

References

  1. ^ . http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/47/2/200.full.pdf. 
  2. ^ http://www.seaslugforum.net/specieslist.cfm accessed 27 February 2009
  3. ^ GOSLINER, T.M. 1987. Nudibranchs of Southern Africa ISBN 0-930118-13-8