Cuthona

Cuthona
Cuthona
Cuthona sibogae
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
Subfamily: Cuthoninae
Genus: Cuthona
Alder & Hancock, 1855

Cuthona is a genus of nudibranch in the family Tergipedidae. It feeds on hydroids, and has polydentate radular teeth.[1]

Cuthona is the type genus of the subfamily Cuthoninae.

Species

Species in the genus Cuthona include[2][3]:

  • Cuthona abronia
  • Cuthona amoena
  • Cuthona annulata (Baba, 1949)
  • Cuthona barbadiana
  • Cuthona behrensi
  • Cuthona cocoachroma
  • Cuthona concinna
  • Cuthona caerulea
  • Cuthona columbiana
  • Cuthona destinyae
  • Cuthona divae
  • Cuthona diversicolor
  • Cuthona flavovulta
  • Cuthona fulgens
  • Cuthona gymnota
  • Cuthona hamanni
  • Cuthona kanga (Edmunds, 1970)
  • Cuthona kuiteri
  • Cuthona lagunae
  • Cuthona millenae
  • Cuthona nana
  • Cuthona ocellata
  • Cuthona ornata Baba, 1937
  • Cuthona pinnifera
  • Cuthona poritophages
  • Cuthona puellula
  • Cuthona punicea
  • Cuthona purpureoanulata
  • Cuthona pustulata
  • Cuthona rubescens
  • Cuthona scintillans
  • Cuthona sibogae
  • Cuthona speciosa (Macnae, 1954)
  • Cuthona viridis
  • Cuthona yamasui
  • Cuthona zelandica

References

  1. ^ . http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/47/2/200.full.pdf. 
  2. ^ http://www.seaslugforum.net/specieslist.cfm accessed 27 February 2009
  3. ^ GOSLINER, T.M. 1987. Nudibranchs of Southern Africa ISBN 0-930118-13-8

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