Tenellia ocellata

Tenellia ocellata
The nudibranch Tenellia ocellata, Medas Islands, Spain.
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: Fionidae
Genus: Tenellia
Species: T. ocellata
Binomial name
Tenellia ocellata
(Schmekel, 1966)[1]
Synonyms
  • Trinchesia ocellata Schmekel, 1966
  • Cuthona ocellata (Schmekel, 1966)

Tenellia ocellata is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from the Gulf of Naples, Italy. It has been recorded on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea from Italy to Spain.[3][4]

Ecology

Tenellia ocellata is found on a number of colonial hydroids including Sertularella and Halecium labrosum.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Schmekel, L. (1966). Zwei neue Arten der Familie Cuthonidae aus dem Golf von Neapel: Trichesia granosa n. sp. und Trinchesia ocellata n. sp. (Gastr. Opisthobranchia). Pubbl. Staz. Zool. Napoli 35: 13-28.
  2. ↑ Caballer, M.; Gofas, S. (2014). Cuthona ocellata (Schmekel, 1966). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-03
  3. ↑ Rudman, W.B., 2001 (April 29) Cuthona ocellata (Schmekel, 1966). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  4. 1 2 Ballesteros, Manuel, Enric Madrenas, Miquel Pontes et al. (2012-2016) Tenellia ocellata in OPK-Opistobranquis, Published: 17/05/2012, Accessed: 27/12/2016.
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