Tenellia pinnifera

Tenellia pinnifera
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: Fionidae
Genus: Tenellia
Species: T. pinnifera
Binomial name
Tenellia pinnifera
(Baba, 1949)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cratena pinnifera Baba, 1949
  • Catriona pinnifera (Baba, 1949)
  • Cuthona pinnifera (Baba, 1949)

Tenellia pinnifera is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.

Distribution

This species was described from Sagami Bay, Japan. It was subsequently reported from Kii Peninsula, Osaka Bay, Toyama Bay and Tsuruga Bay.[2]

Description

This Tenellia is a white animal with a single, broken, band of orange-yellow below the tip of the cerata.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Baba, K. (1949). Opisthobranchia of Sagami Bay collected by His Majesty The Emperor of Japan. 194 pp., 50 pls. Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo.
  2. ↑ Baba, K. (1961). Three new species of the genus Catriona from Japan (Nudibranchia - Eolidacea). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 9(2):367-372, pls. 14-15.
  3. ↑ Cuthona pinnifera Baba, 1961 at umiushi-zukan.com
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