Tritonicula pickensi

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Tritonicula pickensi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Tritoniacea
Family: Tritoniidae
Genus: Tritonicula
Species:
T. pickensi
Binomial name
Tritonicula pickensi
(Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967) [1]

Tritonicula pickensi is a species of dendronotid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tritoniidae. [2] A number of Caribbean and western Pacific species of Tritonia were moved to a new genus Tritonicula in 2020 as a result of an integrative taxonomic study of the family Tritoniidae. [3]

Distribution

This species was described from the Gulf of California. It was discovered at La Jolla Shores, Southern California in 1998. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Marcus Ev.; Marcus Er. (1967). American opisthobranch mollusks Part I, Tropical American opisthobranchs, Part II, Opisthobranchs from the Gulf of California. Studies in Tropical Oceanography. 6: 1–256, pl. 1., page(s): 207-210
  2. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Tritonicula pickensi (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967). Accessed on 2021-01-05.
  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. ↑ Millen, S., 2001. Tritonia pickensi The slug site, ed. Miller, M., accessed 2021-01-05.
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