Cuthonella modesta

Cuthonella modesta is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cuthonellidae.[2]

Cuthonella modesta
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:
Cuthonellidae
Genus:
Cuthonella
Species:
C. modesta
Binomial name
Cuthonella modesta
Eliot, 1907[1]
Synonyms

Cuthonella modesta Eliot, 1907

Distribution

This species was described from Hut Point, Ross Sea, Antarctica. It has been reported from McMurdo Sound.[3]

References
  1. Eliot, C. N. E. (1907). Mollusca. IV. Nudibranchiata. National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904. Natural History 2,Mollusca,IV:1-28, 1 pl.p.25.
  2. Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2016). Cuthonella modesta Eliot, 1907. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-22.
  3. 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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