Cuthona cocoachroma

Cuthona cocoachroma
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: Cuthona
Species: C. cocoachroma
Binomial name
Cuthona cocoachroma
Williams & Gosliner, 1979[1]

Cuthona cocoachroma is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tergipedidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Duxbury Reef, San Francisco, U.S.A.. It has been reported as far north as the Olympic Peninsula, Washington.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Williams, G.C. & Gosliner, T.M. (1979) Two new species of nudibranchiate mollusks from the west coast of North America, with a revision of the family Cuthonidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 67: 203-223.
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2014). Cuthona cocoachroma Williams & Gosliner, 1979. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=548328 on 2015-02-02
  3. ↑ Goddard, J.H.R., (2003 January 20) Cuthona cocoachroma Williams & Gosliner, 1979. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.