Biology:Trinchesia longi

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Trinchesia longi
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Trinchesia
Species:
T. longi
Binomial name
Trinchesia longi
(Behrens, 1985)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cuthona longi Behrens, 1985

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

Distribution

This species was described from Isla Raza, Baja California, Mexico, [ ⚑ ] 28°48′00″N 113°00′00″W / 28.8°N 113°W / 28.8; -113.[1]

Description

The adult size of this species is up to 32 mm in length. The cerata are cored with green digestive gland and have surface rings of pale blue, yellow-gold and red pigment and white tips.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Behrens, D. W. (1985). A new species of Cuthona from the Gulf of California. Veliger 27(4):418-422.
  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. Behrens, (2000). Cuthona longi at the Slug Site.

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