Cuthona modesta

Cuthona modesta
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. modesta
Binomial name
Cuthona modesta
(Eliot, 1907)[1]
Synonyms

Cuthonella modesta Eliot, 1907

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

Distribution

This species was described from Hut Point, Ross Sea, Antarctica. It has been reported from McMurdo Sound.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Eliot, C. N. E. (1907). Mollusca. IV. Nudibranchiata. National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904. Natural History 2,Mollusca,IV:1-28, 1 pl.p.25.
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2014). Cuthona modesta (Eliot, 1907). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-13
  3. ↑ Valdés Á., Moran A.L. & Woods H.A. (2012) Revision of several poorly known Antarctic aeolid nudibranch species (Mollusca: Gastropoda), with the description of a new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 92(5): 1161-1174.