Cuthona fructuosa

Cuthona 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: Tergipedidae
Genus: Cuthona
Species: C. fructuosa
Binomial name
Cuthona fructuosa
(Bergh, 1892)[1]
Synonyms

Cratena fructuosa Bergh, 1892

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

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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