Tenellia pallida

Tenellia pallida
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. pallida
Binomial name
Tenellia pallida
(Eliot, 1906)[1]
Synonyms
  • Amphorina pallida Eliot, 1906
  • Cuthona pallida (Eliot, 1906)

Tenellia pallida 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 Cape Verde Islands. It was rediscovered and redescribed in 2002.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Eliot, C. N. E. (1906). Report upon a collection of Nudibranchiata from the Cape Verd Islands, with notes by C. Crossland. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 7(3):131-159, p. 155, pl. 14.
  2. ↑ WoRMS (2014). Cuthona pallida (Eliot, 1906). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-03
  3. ↑ Ortea, J., L. Moro, and M. Caballer. 2002. Redescripción de Cuthona pallida (Eliot, 1906) (mollusca: nudibranchia) un pequeño eolidáceo de las islas de Cabo Verde y Canarias. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 13 (4): 123-132.
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