Tritonia (gastropod)

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Tritonia
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A live individual of Tritonia festiva in situ, head end towards the right
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Tritoniidae
Genus: Tritonia
Cuvier, 1798 [1]
Species

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Synonyms [2]
  • CandiellaGray, 1850
  • EuphurusRafinesque, 1815 (Unnecessary substitute name for Tritonia)
  • MicrolophusMabille & Rochebrune, 1889 (Invalid: junior homonym of Microlophus Duméril & Bibron, 1837 [Reptilia]; Myrella is a replacement name)
  • MyrellaOdhner, 1963

Tritonia is a genus of sea slugs, nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tritoniidae. [2]

Contents

Tritonia is the type genus of the family Tritoniidae. [2]

Species

Species within the genus Tritonia include: [3]

Synonyms:

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References

  1. Cuvier G. (1798). Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux, page 387.
  2. 1 2 3 MolluscaBase (2018). Tritonia Cuvier, 1798. Accessed on 2021-01-06.
  3. Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A. (2020). Consolidated data on the phylogeny and evolution of the family Tritoniidae (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) contribute to genera reassessment and clarify the taxonomic status of the neuroscience models Tritonia and Tochuina. PLOS ONE. 15(11): e0242103.
  4. 1 2 Gosliner, T.M. 1987. Nudibranchs of Southern Africa ISBN   0-930118-13-8