| Tenellia leopardina | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
| Family: | Trinchesiidae |
| Genus: | Tenellia |
| Species: | T. leopardina |
| Binomial name | |
| Tenellia leopardina (Vayssière, 1888) [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tenellia leopardina is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae. [2]
This species was described from Marseille, France. In the original description it was also reported from the Rade de Villefranche-sur-Mer, Genoa, Italy, and near Trieste. [1]
The typical adult size of this species is 10 mm.
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Tenellia is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trinchesiidae.
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Paul Gabriel Marie Gourret was a French zoologist remembered for his biological studies of marine fauna and his work in the fishing industry. Gourret also worked with algae.
Albert Jean Baptiste Marie Vayssière was a French scientist, a biologist, specifically a malacologist and entomologist, i.e. someone who studies mollusks, and insects. Within the Mollusca, Vayssière specialized in sea slugs and bubble snails, i.e. marine opisthobranch gastropods. He made significant contributions towards a better understanding of the general biology, phylogenetic relationships, biogeography and ecological distribution of the group.
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