Catriona (gastropod)

Catriona
Catriona aurantia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Aeolidacea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Catriona
Winckworth, 1941
Type species
Eolis aurantia
Alder & Hancock, 1842

Catriona is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trinchesiidae.[1] All species were transferred to Tenellia as a result of a DNA phylogeny study in 2016.[2] It was reinstated in 2017, and once again in 2025, on the basis of DNA and morphological criteria.[3][4]

Species

According to Korshunova et al. (2025), within the genus Catriona include:[4]

  • Catriona alpha (Baba & Hamatani, 1963)
  • Catriona aurantia (Alder & Hancock, 1842) - type species of Catriona
  • Catriona casha Gosliner & R. J. Griffiths, 1981
  • Catriona columbiana (O'Donoghue, 1922) - British Columbia aeolid
  • Catriona gymnota (Couthouy, 1838)
  • Catriona kishiwadensis (Martynov, Korshunova, Lundin & Malmberg, 2022)
  • Catriona lonca (Er. Marcus, 1965)
  • Catriona lucerna (Korshunova, Martynov, Lundin & Malmberg, 2022)
  • Catriona maua (Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1960)
  • Catriona oba (Ev. Marcus, 1970)
  • Catriona osezakiensis (Martynov, Korshunova, Lundin & Malmberg, 2022)
  • Catriona rickettsi (Behrens, 1984) - Doc's aeolid
  • Catriona ronga[5] (Er. Marcus, 1961)
  • Catriona spadix (MacFarland, 1966)
  • Catriona susa (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1960)
  • Catriona tema (Edmunds, 1968)
  • Catriona urquisa (Er. Marcus, 1965)
  • Catriona venusta (Baba, 1949)

Species names currently considered to be synonyms[4]:

References

  1. ↑ Gosliner, T. M.; Griffiths, R. J. (1981). Description and revision of some South African aeolidacean Nudibranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda. Archived 2017-11-07 at the Wayback Machine Annals of the South African Museum. 84: 105-150
  2. ↑ Cella, K; Carmona Barnosi, 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.
  3. ↑ Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Picton, B. (2017). Ontogeny as an important part of integrative taxonomy in tergipedid aeolidaceans (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with a description of a new genus and species from the Barents Sea. Zootaxa. 4324(1): 1.
  4. 1 2 3 Korshunova T.; Fletcher K.; Martynov A. (2025). The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 204, Issue 4, August 2025, zlaf057,
  5. ↑ Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2015). Catriona Winckworth, 1941. MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Catriona Winckworth, 1941. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138542 on 2026-03-03