Tenellia virens
| Tenellia virens | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
| Family: | Fionidae |
| Genus: | Tenellia |
| Species: | T. virens |
| Binomial name | |
| Tenellia virens (MacFarland, 1966)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tenellia virens is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.[2]
Distribution
This species was described from Point Pinos, Monterey Bay, California, United States.[1] It has been recorded along the Eastern Pacific coastline of North America from Duxbury Reef, Marin County to Santa Catalina Island, California, United States.[3][4]
References
- 1 2 MacFarland, F. M. (1966). Studies of opisthobranchiate mollusks of the Pacific coast of North America. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 6:1-546, pls. 1-72. pages 344-347.
- ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2014). Cuthona virens (MacFarland, 1966). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-01-28.
- ↑ Behrens, D.W. & Hermosillo, A. (2005) Eastern Pacific Nudibranchs. A guide to the Opisthobranchs from Alaska to Central America. Sea Challengers, Monterey. 1-137.
- ↑ Cuthona virens. Photo on Slug Site.
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