Biology:Tenellia pinnifera

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Short description: Species of sea slug

Tenellia pinnifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida
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T. pinnifera
Binomial name
Tenellia pinnifera
(Baba, 1949)[1]
Synonyms
  • (Baba, 1949) Baba, 1949
  • Catriona pinnifera Cratena pinnifera
  • (Baba, 1949) Cuthona pinnifera

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

Wikidata ☰ Q20686380 entry