Cuthonella elioti

Cuthonella elioti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Cuthonellidae
Genus: Cuthonella
Species: C. elioti
Binomial name
Cuthonella elioti
(Odhner, 1944)[1]
Synonyms

Cuthonella antarctica Eliot, 1907[2]

Cuthonella elioti is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cuthonellidae.[3] It is a replacement name for Cuthonella antarctica Eliot, 1907 (non Aeolis antarctica Pfeffer in Martens & Pfeffer, 1886).

Distribution

This species was described from Winter Quarters Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica. It has been found on several occasions in McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica 77°51′02.31″S 166°39′56.07″E / 77.8506417°S 166.6655750°E / -77.8506417; 166.6655750.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Odhner N.H. (1944) Mollusca: Nudibranchia and Scaphopoda with zoogeographical remarks and explanations. Scientific Results of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition 1927–1928 21, 1–48.
  2. ↑ Eliot, C. N. E. (1907). Mollusca. IV. Nudibranchiata. National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904. Natural History 2,Mollusca,IV:1-28, 1 pl.p.23.
  3. ↑ Gofas, S. (2016). Cuthonella elioti (Odhner, 1944). In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-22.
  4. ↑ 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. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 92(5): 1161-1174.
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