Cuthonella modesta
Cuthonella modesta is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cuthonellidae.[2]
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Dexiarchia clade Cladobranchia clade Aeolidida |
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Species: | C. modesta |
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Cuthonella modesta | |
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Cuthonella modesta Eliot, 1907 |
Distribution
This species was described from Hut Point, Ross Sea, Antarctica. It has been reported from McMurdo Sound.[3]
References
- Eliot, C. N. E. (1907). Mollusca. IV. Nudibranchiata. National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904. Natural History 2,Mollusca,IV:1-28, 1 pl.p.25.
- Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2016). Cuthonella modesta Eliot, 1907. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-22.
- Valdés Á., Moran A.L. & Woods H.A. (2012) Revision of several poorly known Antarctic aeolid nudibranch species (Mollusca: Gastropoda), with the description of a new species. Archived 2014-06-30 at the Wayback Machine Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 92(5): 1161-1174.
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