Tenellia giarannae

Tenellia giarannae is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.[2]

Tenellia giarannae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Tenellia
Species:
T. giarannae
Binomial name
Tenellia giarannae
(Valdés, Moran & Woods, 2012)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cuthona giarannae Valdés, Moran & Woods, 2012

Distribution

This species was described from the sewage outfall, McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica 77°51′31.95″S 166°40′47.51″E. It is also reported from Arrival Heights, McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica, 77°50′14.29″S 166°37′59.14″E.

References

  1. 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. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 92(5): 1161-1174.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2014). Cuthona giarannae Valdés, Moran & Woods, 2012. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-12
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