Catriona gymnota

Catriona gymnota
The nudibranch Catriona gymnota, Gulen Dive Resort, Norway.
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
Genus: Catriona
Species: C. gymnota
Binomial name
Catriona gymnota
(Couthouy, 1838)[1]
Synonyms
  • Aeolis bellula Lovén, 1846
  • Catriona aurantia (Alder & Hancock, 1842)
  • Cuthona gymnota (Couthouy, 1838)
  • Cratena gymnota (Couthouy, 1838)
  • Eolis aurantia Alder & Hancock, 1842
  • Eolis aurantiaca Alder & Hancock, 1851
  • Eolis gymnota Couthouy, 1838
  • Eolis sanguifera Dalyell, 1853
  • Montagua gouldi Verrill, 1874
  • Trinchesia gymnota (Couthouy, 1838)

Catriona gymnota is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tergipedidae. Eolis aurantia, a subjective synonym of this species, is the type species of the genus Catriona Winckworth, 1941.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Massachusetts Bay, on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the USA. It is reported from the NE Atlantic from Norway south to Portugal and the Mediterranean Sea and the NW Atlantic from Canada to New Jersey.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Couthouy J. P. (1838). Descriptions of new species of Mollusca and shells, and remarks on several Polypii, found in Massachusetts Bay. Boston Journal of Natural History 2 (1): 53-111, pl. 1-3
  2. ↑ Gofas, S. (2014). Cuthona gymnota (Couthouy, 1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153380 on 2015-01-26
  3. ↑ Rudman, W.B., 2000 (September 17). Cuthona gymnota (Couthouy, 1838). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
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