Cuthona leopardina
| Cuthona leopardina | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
| Family: | Tergipedidae |
| Genus: | Cuthona |
| Species: | C. leopardina |
| Binomial name | |
| Cuthona leopardina (Vayssière, 1888) [1][2] | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Amphorina alberti var. leopardina Vayssière, 1888 | |
Cuthona leopardina is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tergipedidae.[3]
Distribution
This species was described from Marseille, France. In the original description it was also reported from the Rade de Villefranche-sur-Mer, Genoa, Italy, and near Trieste.[1]
Description
The typical adult size of this species is 10 mm.
References
- 1 2 Vayssière A. (1888). Recherches zoologiques et anatomiques sur les mollusques opisthobranches du Golfe de Marseille pt. 2. Nudibranches (Cirrobranches) et Ascoglosses. Annales du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Marseille 3 (4): 1-160.
- ↑ Cuthona leopardina as Amphorina alberti var. leopardina Vayssière, 1888 p. 55
- ↑ Gofas, S. (2014). Cuthona leopardina (Vayssière, 1888). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-14
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