Trinchesia yamasui

Trinchesia yamasui is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trinchesiidae.[2]

Trinchesia yamasui
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Trinchesia
Species:
T. yamasui
Binomial name
Trinchesia yamasui
(Hamatani, 1993)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cuthona yamasui Hamatani, 1993
  • Tenellia yamasui (Hamatani, 199)

Distribution

This species was described from Okinawa, Japan.[1] It has been reported from many places in the Indo-West Pacific region but some of these records are now known to be members of a species complex.[3]

References

  1. Hamatani, I (1993) A new cuthonid species (Nudibranchia, Aeolidacea), Cuthona yamasui n.sp., from Okinawa, Southwestern Japan. Venus, The Japanese Journal of Malacology, 52(2): 127-133. (Figs 1-3)
  2. Picton, B.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Trinchesia yamasui (Hamatani, 1993). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=847706 on 2017-12-07
  3. Cella K., Carmona L., Ekimova I., Chichvarkhin A., Schepetov D., Gosliner T.M., (2016) A Radical Solution: The Phylogeny of the Nudibranch Family Fionidae. PLoS ONE, 11(12): e0167800. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0167800
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