Cuthona scintillans

Cuthona scintillans
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. scintillans
Binomial name
Cuthona scintillans
Miller, 1977 [1]

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

Distribution

This species was described from Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand. [3]

References

  1. Miller, M.C. (1977). Aeolid nudibranchs (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) of the family Tergipedidae from New Zealand waters. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 60: 197-222.
  2. Marshall, B.; Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2015). Cuthona scintillans M. C. Miller, 1977. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-03-09
  3. Rudman, W.B., 2007 (Sep 11) Cuthona scintillans from New Zealand. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, March 09, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.