Tenellia herrerai

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Tenellia herrerai
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Tenellia
Species:
T. herrerai
Binomial name
Tenellia herrerai
(Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2002) [1]
Synonyms
  • Cuthona herrerai Ortea, Moro& Caballer, 2002)

Tenellia herrerai is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae. [2]

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Taxonomic history

The species was first described, then named as Cuthona herrerai in 2002. It was a Cuthona species until a DNA phylogeny of the former family Tergipedidae resulted in most species of Cuthona being transferred to the genus Tenellia, including Cuthona herrerai which became Tenellia herrerai. [3]

Distribution

This species was described from Tarrafal de Monte Trigo, Santo Antão, Cape Verde Islands. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Ortea J.A., Moro L. & Caballer M. (2002). Descripcion de una especie nueva del género Cuthona Alder & Hancock, 1855 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) de las islas de Cabo Verde. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 13(4): 117-121. ["2001", published July 2002].
  2. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Cuthona herrerai Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2002". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  3. Cella, Kristen; Carmona, Leila; Ekimova, Irina; Chichvarkhin, Anton; Schepetov, Dimitry; Gosliner, Terrence M. (2016-12-15). "A Radical Solution: The Phylogeny of the Nudibranch Family Fionidae". PLOS ONE. 11 (12): e0167800. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1167800C. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167800 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   5158052 . PMID   27977703.