Tenellia fidenciae

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

Tenellia fidenciae
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. fidenciae
Binomial name
Tenellia fidenciae
(Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1999)[1]
Synonyms
  • Eubranchus fidenciae Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1999
  • Cuthona fidenciae (Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1999)

Distribution

This species was described from Playa del barranco de Avalos, Isla de La Gomera, the Canary Islands. It has been reported from Caloura, Sao Miguel Island, Azores and Montana Roja, Tenerife.[3]

References
  1. Ortea, J. A., Moro, L. & Espinosa, J. (1999). Dos moluscos opistobranquios nuevos de las Islas Canarias. Avicennia, Revista de Oceanología, Ecología y Biodiversidad Tropical 10-11:151-156.
  2. Caballer, M.; Gofas, S. (2014). Cuthona fidenciae (Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1999). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-13
  3. Ortea J.A., Caballer, M. & Moro, L. (2001). Primeros datos sobre un complejo de especies alrededor de Cuthona willani Cervera, García & López, 1992 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) en la Macaronesia y Marruecos. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias XIII (4): 101-112.
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