Trinchesia macquariensis

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Trinchesia macquariensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Trinchesia
Species:
T. macquariensis
Binomial name
Trinchesia macquariensis
Burn, 1973 [1]
Synonyms
  • Tenellia macquariensis(Burn, 1973)
  • Cuthona macquariensis(Burn, 1973)

Trinchesia macquariensis 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 Buckles Bay, Macquarie Island, 54°29′49″S158°56′07″E / 54.4969°S 158.9353°E / -54.4969; 158.9353 . [1]

Description

The adult size of this species is up to 5 mm in length. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Burn, R. F. (1973). Opisthobranch molluscs from the Australian sub-Antarctic territories of Macquarie and Heard Islands. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 86(1):39-46.
  2. Picton, B. (2017). Trinchesia macquariensis Burn, 1973. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1037057 on 2017-12-06
  3. Valdés Á., Moran A.L. & Woods H.A. (2012) Revision of several poorly known Antarctic aeolid nudibranch species (Mollusca: Gastropoda), with the description of a new species. Archived 2014-06-30 at the Wayback Machine Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 92(5): 1161-1174.