Cuthonella

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Cuthonella
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Cuthonella concinna, Strangford Lough, Co Down, Northern Ireland.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Cuthonellidae
Genus: Cuthonella
Bergh, 1884 [1]

Cuthonella is a genus of sea slugs, specifically aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cuthonellidae. [2]

Species

Species within the genus Cuthonella include: [3]

Species originally described in Cuthonella but currently placed in synonymy include:

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References

  1. Bergh R. (1884). Report on the Nudibranchiata collected by HMS Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Reports of the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger", Zoology 10 (part 26): 1-154, pl. 1-14 page(s): 23
  2. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2016). Cuthonella Bergh, 1884. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-22.
  3. 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.