Tenellia fructuosa

Tenellia fructuosa is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.[2]

Tenellia fructuosa
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. fructuosa
Binomial name
Tenellia fructuosa
(Bergh, 1892)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cratena fructuosa Bergh, 1892
  • Cuthona fructuosa (Bergh, 1892)

Distribution

This species was described from a single specimen taken on floating Sargassum in the Sargasso Sea.

References
  1. Bergh R. (1892). Opistobranches provenant des campagnes du yacht Hirondelle. Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert 1er, Prince souverain de Monaco 4: 1-35.p.4,pl.1,fig.1-6.
  2. Gofas, S. (2014). Cuthona fructuosa (Bergh, 1892). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-13
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