Cuthonella cocoachroma

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Cuthonella cocoachroma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Cuthonellidae
Genus: Cuthonella
Species:
C. cocoachroma
Binomial name
Cuthonella cocoachroma
(Williams & Gosliner, 1979) [1]
Synonyms

Cuthona cocoachromaG. C. Williams & Gosliner, 1979

Cuthonella cocoachroma is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cuthonellidae. [2] [3]

Distribution

This species was described from Duxbury Reef, San Francisco, United States. It has been reported as far north as the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Williams, G.C. & Gosliner, T.M. (1979) Two new species of nudibranchiate mollusks from the west coast of North America, with a revision of the family Cuthonidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 67: 203-223.
  2. ↑ Gofas, S. (2016). Cuthonella cocoachroma (Williams & Gosliner, 1979). 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.
  4. ↑ Goddard, J.H.R., (2003 January 20) Cuthona cocoachroma Williams & Gosliner, 1979. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.


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