Tochuina tetraquetra
| Tochuina tetraquetra | |
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| A live individual of Tochuina tetraquetra, in situ, head end towards the camera | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Tritonioidea |
| Family: | Tritoniidae |
| Genus: | Tochuina |
| Species: | T. tetraquetra |
| Binomial name | |
| Tochuina tetraquetra (Pallas, 1788)[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
Tochuina tetraquetra, common name the giant orange tochui, is a species of sea slug, a tritonid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tritoniidae. [2]
Bergh (1879) used the name Tritonia tetraquetra in a sense different from Pallas (1788). The oldest valid name for Tochuina tetraquetra sensu Bergh, 1879 is Tritonia gigantea Bergh, 1904. [2]
References
- ↑ Pallas P. S. (1788). "Marina varia nova et rariora". Nova Acta Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. 2: 229-250.
- 1 2 3 Bouchet, P. (2012). Tochuina tetraquetra. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=248351 on 2012-06-03
- Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp.
- Martynov A.V. (2009) Opisthobranch Mollusca of Russia: the neglected diversity of cold waters. Abstracts and Papers from the 39th Annual Meeting of the Western Society of Malacologists. The Western Society of Malacologists, Annual Report 39: 22-23.
Further reading
- (Japanese) Baba K. 1968. [A collection of Tochuina tetraquetra (Pallas, 1788) from Shirikishinai, Hokkaido, Japan (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia).] Collecting & Breeding [Saishu to Shiiku] 30(8):257-258, figs. 1-5.
- Baba, K. 1969. "Range extension of Tochuina tetraquetra (Pallas, 1788) to Hokkaido, North Japan (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia)". Veliger 12(1):134.
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