| Trinchesia kuiteri | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
| Family: | Trinchesiidae |
| Genus: | Trinchesia |
| Species: | T. kuiteri |
| Binomial name | |
| Trinchesia kuiteri (Rudman, 1981) [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Trinchesia kuiteri is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae. [2]
This species was described from Green Point, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. [3]
Trinchesia kuiteri feeds on the sponge associated solitary hydroid Zyzzyzus spongicola . In a remarkable adaptation the cerata have tentacle-like filaments which mimic the tentacles of the hydroid. [3]
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