Catriona gymnota

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Catriona gymnota
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Catriona
Species:
C. gymnota
Binomial name
Catriona gymnota
(Couthouy, 1838) [1]
Synonyms
  • Eolis gymnotaCouthouy, 1838
  • Eolis sanguiferaDalyell, 1853
  • Montagua gouldiVerrill, 1874

Catriona gymnota is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trinchesiidae. [2]

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Distribution

This species was described from Massachusetts Bay, on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the US. It is reported from the NW Atlantic from Canada to New Jersey. [3] DNA evidence suggests that the NE Atlantic specimens previously thought to be this species actually belong to a separate species and should therefore be called Catriona aurantia . [4] [5]

Description

This species has a translucent white body and slightly swollen cerata. The digestive gland is orange pink in colour and the tips of the cerata have a broad white band of tiny epidermal glands. In larger specimens the rhinophores develop a pale orange suffusion. The foot is broad and rounded anteriorly. Large individuals may exceed 20 mm in length.

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References

  1. Couthouy J. P. (1838). Descriptions of new species of Mollusca and shells, and remarks on several Polypii, found in Massachusetts Bay. Boston Journal of Natural History 2 (1): 53-111, pl. 1-3
  2. Gofas, S. (2015). Cuthona gymnota (Couthouy, 1838). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153380 Archived 2017-11-07 at the Wayback Machine on 2016-02-28
  3. Rudman, W.B., 2000 (September 17). Cuthona gymnota (Couthouy, 1838). Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  4. Cella, K; Carmona Barnosi, L.; Ekimova, I; Chichvarkhin, A; Schepetov, D; Gosliner, T. M. (2016). A radical solution: The phylogeny of the nudibranch family Fionidae. PLoS ONE. 11(12): e0167800.
  5. Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Picton, B. (2017). Ontogeny as an important part of integrative taxonomy in tergipedid aeolidaceans (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with a description of a new genus and species from the Barents Sea. Zootaxa. 4324(1): 1.

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