Tenellia diminutiva

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

Tenellia diminutiva
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:
Fionidae
Genus:
Tenellia
Species:
T. diminutiva
Binomial name
Tenellia diminutiva
(Gosliner, 1980)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cuthona diminutiva Gosliner, 1980

Distribution

This species was described from the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Coconut Island, Oahu, Hawaii.[3]

References
  1. Gosliner, T. (1980). The systematics of the Aeolidacea (Nudibranchia: Mollusca) of the Hawaiian Islands, with descriptions of two new species. Pacific Science, 33(1), 37-77.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2014). Cuthona diminutiva Gosliner, 1980. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-12
  3. Pittman, C. & Fiene, P. (2015). Cuthona diminutiva, Sea Slugs of Hawaii.
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