Tenellia pinnifera

Tenellia pinnifera is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.

Tenellia pinnifera
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. pinnifera
Binomial name
Tenellia pinnifera
(Baba, 1949)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cratena pinnifera Baba, 1949
  • Catriona pinnifera (Baba, 1949)
  • Cuthona pinnifera (Baba, 1949)

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
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