Trinchesia alpha
| Trinchesia alpha | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
| Family: | Trinchesiidae |
| Genus: | Trinchesia |
| Species: | T. alpha
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| Binomial name | |
| Trinchesia alpha | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cuthona alpha Baba & Hamatani, 1963 (original combination) | |
Trinchesia alpha is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This species was described from the shore of Kozuchi-jima near the Tamano Marine Laboratory, Tamano, Inland Sea of Seto, Japan; it also occurs off New Zealand.
Description
[edit]The typical adult size of this species is 13–15 mm.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Baba K. & Hamatani I. (1963). A cuthonid, Cuthona alpha n. sp., with a radula of Catriona type (Nudibranchia Eolidoidea). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 11(2): 339-343. [31 December 1963]
- ^ Rosenberg, G. (2014). Trinchesia alpha (Baba & Hamatani, 1963). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=599244 on 2015-02-20
- ^ Photograph of Trinchesia alpha - Uozu, Toyama Bay.
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
External links
[edit]- Baba, K.; Hamatani, I. (1963). A cuthonid, Cuthona alpha n. sp., with a radula of Catriona type (Nudibranchia Eolidoidea). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory. 11(2): 339-343
- Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone