Catriona casha

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Catriona casha
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Catriona
Species:
C. casha
Binomial name
Catriona casha
Gosliner & Griffiths, 1981 [1]

Catriona casha is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trinchesiidae. [2]

Distribution

This species was described from Cape Town docks, on the Atlantic Ocean coast of South Africa. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Gosliner, T. M., & Roberta J. Griffiths. 1981. Description and revision of some South African aeolidacean Nudibranchia (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Annals of the South African Museum 84(2):105- 150.
  2. Sartori, André F. (2014). Catriona casha Gosliner & Griffiths, 1981. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed on 2017-11-10.