Catriona casha

Catriona casha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Aeolidacea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Catriona
Species:
C. casha
Binomial name
Catriona casha
Gosliner & Griffiths, 1981[1]
Synonyms
  • Tenellia casha (Gosliner & Griffiths, 1981)

Catriona casha is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trinchesiidae.[2][3]

Distribution

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

References

  1. 1 2 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. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Tenellia casha (Gosliner & R. J. Griffiths, 1981). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1765135 on 2026-03-03
  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,