Guyvalvoria paradoxa

Guyvalvoria paradoxa
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: Guyvalvoria
Species: C. paradoxa
Binomial name
Guyvalvoria paradoxa
(Eliot, 1907)[1]
Synonyms

Cuthonella paradoxa Eliot, 1907

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

Distribution

This species was described from Winter Quarters, 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.24.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2014). Guyvalvoria paradoxa (Eliot, 1907). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=699319 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.
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