| Tenellia diversicolor | |
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| The nudibranch Tenellia diversicolor, Mit Kok Tsui, Hong Kong. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
| Family: | Trinchesiidae |
| Genus: | Tenellia |
| Species: | T. diversicolor |
| Binomial name | |
| Tenellia diversicolor | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tenellia diversicolor is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae. [2]
This species was described from the shore of Akasumi, west coast of the Noto Peninsula, Japan. The original description contains records from the Japan Sea coast of Middle Japan: Sado Island, Toyama Bay and Oki Island, Shimane Prefecture. [1] Also reported from South Korea and Hong Kong. [3]
Tenellia diversicolor feeds on a hydroid, a species of Aglaophenia , family Aglaopheniidae. [3]
Cuthona is a genus of nudibranch in the family Cuthonidae.
Kikutaro Baba was a Japanese malacologist. He was the leading researcher on sea slugs and bubble snails, opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in Japan.
Tenellia is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trinchesiidae.
Trinchesia is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trinchesiidae. All species were transferred to Tenellia as a result of a DNA phylogeny study in 2016. The genus was dismembered and broken into several smaller genera in 2017 with further DNA evidence and a re-interpretation of genus and family characteristics.
Tenellia punicea is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.
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Tenellia behrensi is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.
Tenellia destinyae is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.
Trinchesia genovae is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.
Tenellia puellula is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.
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Tenellia willani is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.
Tenellia herrerai is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.
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