Biology:Trinchesia iris

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Trinchesia iris
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Trinchesia
Species:
T. iris
Binomial name
Trinchesia iris
(Edmunds & Just, 1983)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cuthona iris Edmunds & Just, 1983

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

Distribution

This species was described from the reef flat outside Bellairs Research Institute, Barbados.

Description

The typical adult size of this species is 5–10 mm.

References

  1. Edmunds, M., & H. Just. 1983. Eolid nudibranchiate Mollusca from Barbados. Journal of Molluscan Studies 49(3):185-203.
  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,

Wikidata ☰ Q13505905 entry