Cuthona pinnifera
| Cuthona pinnifera | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
| Family: | Tergipedidae |
| Genus: | Cuthona |
| Species: | C. pinnifera |
| Binomial name | |
| Cuthona pinnifera (Baba, 1949)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cratena pinnifera Baba, 1949 | |
Cuthona pinnifera is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tergipedidae.
Distribution
This species was described from Sagami Bay, Japan. It was subsequently reported from Kii Peninsula, Osaka Bay, Toyama Bay and Tsuruga Bay. [2]
Description
This Cuthona is a white animal with a single, broken, band of orange-yellow below the tip of the cerata. [3]
References
- ↑ Baba, K. (1949). Opisthobranchia of Sagami Bay collected by His Majesty The Emperor of Japan. 194 pp., 50 pls. Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo.
- ↑ Baba, K. (1961). Three new species of the genus Catriona from Japan (Nudibranchia - Eolidacea). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 9(2):367-372, pls. 14-15.
- ↑ Cuthona pinnifera Baba, 1961 at umiushi-zukan.com