Tritonia hombergii

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Tritonia hombergii
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Drawing of Tritonia hombergii from Kunstformen der Natur (1904)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Tritoniidae
Genus: Tritonia
Species:
T. hombergii
Binomial name
Tritonia hombergii
Cuvier, 1803 [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Tritonia hombergi Cuvier, 1803 [orth. error]
  • Tritonia alba Alder & Hancock, 1854
  • Tritonia atrofuscaMacGillivray, 1843

Tritonia hombergii is a species of dendronotid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tritoniidae. [2]

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Tritonia hombergii is the type species of the genus Tritonia .

Distribution

This species was described from Le Havre, France. It is frequently found in the NE Atlantic Ocean feeding on the soft coral Alcyonium digitatum . [3] [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Cuvier G.L., (1803). Mémoire sur le genre Tritonia, avec la description et l'anatomie d'une espèce nouvelle, Tritonia hombergii. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle : 1:480-496, pl. 31-32.
  2. 1 2 MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Tritonia hombergii Cuvier, 1803. Accessed on 2021-01-07.
  3. ↑ Rudman, W.B., 1999 (September 16) Tritonia hombergii Cuvier, 1803. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  4. ↑ Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2016). Tritonia hombergii (Cuvier, 1803). [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. Accessed on 2021-01-07.
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