Tritonia lineata

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Tritonia lineata
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: Tritonia
Species: T. lineata
Binomial name
Tritonia lineata
Alder & Hancock, 1848[1]

Tritonia lineata is a species of dendronotid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tritoniidae.[2]

Description

Tritonia lineata was originally discovered in 1846 and described by British malacologists Joshua Alder and Albany Hancock in 1848.[1]

The original text (the type description) reads as follows:[1]

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Body very slender, pellucid white, with an opake white line along each side of the back, which is curved a little outwards opposite each branchial tuft. Veil produced into four long filaments; the two nearest the centre longest and tapering gradually to a point, the side ones shorter and obtuse. Tentacles pale yellow, the fasciculse of filaments slender, and the sheaths rather tight. Branchiae rather slender, bipinnate, transparent, with an opake white line in the centre of each running into those on the back. Foot slender, rounded in front and terminating in a point behind. Length half an inch.

This beautiful new Tritonia was discovered under stones at Scarborough in September 1846, while we were exploring the rocks in company with Mr. Bean.

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Distribution

The type locality is Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.[1]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[1]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Alder J. & Hancock A. (1848). "Additions to the British species of Nudibranchiate Mollusca". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 2)1: 189-192.
  2. ↑ Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdes A. & Warén A. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278

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