Catriona (gastropod)

Catriona
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: Catriona
Winckworth, 1941
Type species
Eolis aurantia Alder & Hancock, 1842

Catriona was a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tergipedidae.[1] All species were transferred to Tenellia as a result of a DNA phylogeny study in 2016.[2]

Species within the genus Catriona included:[3]

Species names currently considered to be synonyms:

References

  1. Gosliner, T. M.; Griffiths, R. J. (1981). Description and revision of some South African aeolidacean Nudibranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda. Annals of the South African Museum. 84: 105-150
  2. Cella, K; Carmona Barnosi, L.; Ekimova, I; Chichvarkhin, A; Schepetov, D; Gosliner, T. M. (2016). A radical solution: The phylogeny of the nudibranch family Fionidae. PLoS ONE. 11(12): e0167800.
  3. Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2015). Catriona Winckworth, 1941. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138542 on 2015-02-09


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