Cuthona fidenciae

Cuthona fidenciae
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: Cuthona
Species: C. fidenciae
Binomial name
Cuthona fidenciae
(Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1999)[1]
Synonyms
  • Eubranchus fidenciae Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1999

Cuthona fidenciae is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tergipedidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Playa del barranco de Avalos, Isla de La Gomera, the Canary Islands. It has been reported from Caloura, Sao Miguel Island, Azores and Montana Roja, Tenerife.[3]

References

  1. Ortea, J. A., Moro, L. & Espinosa, J. (1999). Dos moluscos opistobranquios nuevos de las Islas Canarias. Avicennia, Revista de Oceanología, Ecología y Biodiversidad Tropical 10-11:151-156.
  2. Caballer, M.; Gofas, S. (2014). Cuthona fidenciae (Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1999). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-13
  3. Ortea J.A., Caballer, M. & Moro, L. (2001). Primeros datos sobre un complejo de especies alrededor de Cuthona willani Cervera, García & López, 1992 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) en la Macaronesia y Marruecos. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias XIII (4): 101-112.
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