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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