Cuthona flavovulta

Cuthona flavovulta
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. flavovulta
Binomial name
Cuthona flavovulta
(MacFarland, 1966)[1]
Synonyms

Cratena flavovulta MacFarland, 1966

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

Distribution

This species was described from inner Monterey Bay, California, U.S.A..[1] Reported along the East Pacific coastline of America from Kayostia Beach, Clallam County, Washington State to Hazard Canyon, San Luis Obispo County, California.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 MacFarland, F. M. (1966). Studies of opisthobranchiate mollusks of the Pacific coast of North America. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 6:1-546, pls. 1-72. pages 336-337.
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2014). Cuthona flavovulta (MacFarland, 1966). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-01-28
  3. McDonald, G. (2015). Intertidal Invertebrates of the Monterey Bay Area, California