Cuthona kanga

Cuthona kanga
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. kanga
Binomial name
Cuthona kanga
(Edmunds, 1970)[1]

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

Distribution

This species was described from the President's Jetty, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Description

The typical adult size of this species is 5 mm.

References

  1. Edmunds, M. 1970. Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Tanzania. II. Eolidacea (Cuthonidae, Piseinotecidae and Facelinidae). Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 39:15-57.
  2. Sartori, André F. (2014). Cuthona kanga (Edmunds, 1970). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-09
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