Biology:Trinchesia futairo

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Trinchesia futairo
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Trinchesia
Species:
T. futairo
Binomial name
Trinchesia futairo
(Baba, 1963)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cuthona bicolor Baba, 1933 non Bergh, 1904
  • Baba, 1963 Cuthona futairo

Trinchesia futairo is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Mukaishima, Inland Sea of Seto, Japan. Also reported from Mutsu Bay, Sagami Bay; Sugashima near Toba, Osaka Bay, Saeki Bay, Amakusa and Toyama Bay in the original description.[1]

Description

The typical adult size of this species is 10 mm. The body is pale orange-yellow with the tips of the oral tentacles and rhinophores deeper orange-yellow. The oral tentacles have a longitudinal opaque white band on the posterior side. The cerata have an opaque white mark below the tip on the outer surface.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Baba K. (1963). The anatomy of Cuthona futairo n. sp. (= C. bicolor of Baba, 1933) (Nudibranchia Eolidoidea). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 11(1): 109-117. [20 July 1963]
  2. Korshunova T.; Fletcher K.; Martynov A. (2025). The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 204, Issue 4, August 2025, zlaf057,
  3. Takaoka Biological Club, (2004). Trinchesia futairo, Sea Slug from the Japan Sea coasts of Middle Japan.

Wikidata ☰ Q20686378 entry