Trinchesia lenkae

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Trinchesia lenkae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Trinchesia
Species:
T. lenkae
Binomial name
Trinchesia lenkae
Martynov, 2002 [1]
Synonyms
  • Tenellia lenkae(Martynov, 2002)
  • Cuthona lenkae(Martynov, 2002)

Trinchesia lenkae is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae. [2]

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Distribution

This species was described from Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan, Russia.

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References

  1. Martynov, A. V. (2002). "Two new species of the genus Trinchesia Ihering, 1879 from Peter the Great Bay, Japan Sea (Nudibranchia, Tergipedidae), with notes on the taxonomy of the family." Ruthenica 12(1):45-54. [In Russian].
  2. Picton, B.; Gofas, S. (2017). Trinchesia lenkae Martynov, 2002. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=395609 on 2017-12-06.