Catriona casha

Catriona casha is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trinchesiidae.[2]

Catriona casha
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:
Trinchesiidae
Genus:
Catriona
Species:
C. casha
Binomial name
Catriona casha
Gosliner & Griffiths, 1981[1]

Distribution

This species was described from Cape Town docks, on the Atlantic Ocean coast of South Africa.[1]

References
  1. Gosliner, T. M., & Roberta J. Griffiths. 1981. Description and revision of some South African aeolidacean Nudibranchia (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Annals of the South African Museum 84(2):105- 150.
  2. Sartori, André F. (2014). Catriona casha Gosliner & Griffiths, 1981. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed on 2017-11-10.


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