Cuthona valentini

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

Cratena valentini Eliot, 1907

Cuthona valentini 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 Falkland Islands. It has also been reported from Chile. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Eliot, C. N. E. 1907. Nudibranchs from New Zealand and the Falkland Islands. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 7(6):327-361, pl. 28.
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2014). Cuthona valentini (Eliot, 1907). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-03-09.
  3. ↑ Schories, D. (2015). Cuthona valerntini [in] The image field guide to fauna and flora - Chile.