Cuthona diminutiva

Cuthona diminutiva
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. diminutiva
Binomial name
Cuthona diminutiva
Gosliner, 1980[1]

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

Distribution

This species was described from the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Coconut Island, Oahu, Hawaii.[3]

References

  1. Gosliner, T. (1980). The systematics of the Aeolidacea (Nudibranchia: Mollusca) of the Hawaiian Islands, with descriptions of two new species. Pacific Science, 33(1), 37-77.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2014). Cuthona diminutiva Gosliner, 1980. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-12
  3. Pittman, C. & Fiene, P. (2015). Cuthona diminutiva, Sea Slugs of Hawaii.