Tochuina tetraquetra

Tochuina tetraquetra
A live individual of Tochuina tetraquetra, in situ, head end towards the camera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Dendronotida

Superfamily: Tritonioidea
Family: Tritoniidae
Genus: Tochuina
Species: T. tetraquetra
Binomial name
Tochuina tetraquetra
(Pallas, 1788)[1]
Synonyms

Tritonia gigantea Bergh, 1904

Tochuina tetraquetra, common name the giant orange tochui, is a species of sea slug, a tritonid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tritoniidae.

References

  1. ^ Pallas P. S. (1788). "Marina varia nova et rariora". Nova Acta Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. 2: 229-250.

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