Tenellia pinnifera

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Tenellia pinnifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida
Superfamily:
Fionoidea
Family:
Fionidae
Genus:
Tenellia
Species:
T. pinnifera
Binomial name
Tenellia pinnifera
(Baba, 1949) [1]
Synonyms
  • Cratena pinniferaBaba, 1949
  • Catriona pinnifera(Baba, 1949)
  • Cuthona pinnifera(Baba, 1949)

Tenellia pinnifera is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.

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Distribution

This species was described from Sagami Bay, Japan. It was subsequently reported from Kii Peninsula, Osaka Bay, Toyama Bay and Tsuruga Bay. [2]

Description

This Tenellia is a white animal with a single, broken, band of orange-yellow below the tip of the cerata. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Baba, K. (1949). Opisthobranchia of Sagami Bay collected by His Majesty The Emperor of Japan. 194 pp., 50 pls. Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo.
  2. ↑ Baba, K. (1961). Three new species of the genus Catriona from Japan (Nudibranchia - Eolidacea). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 9(2):367-372, pls. 14-15.
  3. ↑ Cuthona pinnifera Baba, 1961 at umiushi-zukan.com
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