Tenellia pinnifera

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Tenellia pinnifera
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Trinchesiidae
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