Tenellia punicea

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Tenellia punicea
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. punicea
Binomial name
Tenellia punicea
(Millen, 1986) [1]
Synonyms
  • Cuthona puniceaMillen, 1986

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

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Distribution

This species was described from British Columbia, Canada, Pacific Ocean. [1] It has been suggested that this species is synonymous with the Atlantic Ocean species Tenellia pustulata but this seems unlikely given the differences in colour, diet and anatomy. Only the 16S and H3 gene were sequenced and these are known to be identical in some other species pairs. [3]

Ecology

Tenellia punicea feeds on a large purple athecate hydroid which is thought to be an undescribed species of Corymorpha . [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Millen, S.V. (1986) Northern, primitive Tergipedid nudibranchs, with a description of a new species from the Canadian Pacific. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 64(6): 1356-1362.
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2014). Cuthona punicea Millen, 1986. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-01-30
  3. ↑ Cella, K; Carmona Barnosi, L.; Ekimova, I; Chichvarkhin, A; Schepetov, D; Gosliner, T. M. (2016). A radical solution: The phylogeny of the nudibranch family Fionidae. PLoS ONE. 11(12): e0167800.
  4. ↑ Rudman, W.B. (2003) (October 19) Cuthona punicea Millen, 1986. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
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