Trinchesia pinnifera

Trinchesia pinnifera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Aeolidacea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Trinchesia
Species:
T. pinnifera
Binomial name
Trinchesia pinnifera
(Baba, 1949)[1]
Synonyms
  • Catriona pinnifera Baba, 1949
  • Cratena pinnifera Baba, 1949
  • Cuthona pinnifera (Baba, 1949)

Trinchesia pinnifera is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Sagami Bay, Japan. It was subsequently reported from Kii Peninsula, Osaka Bay, Toyama Bay and Tsuruga Bay.[3]

Description

This Trinchesia is a white animal with a single, broken, band of orange-yellow below the tip of the cerata.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Baba, K. (1949). Opisthobranchia of Sagami Bay collected by His Majesty The Emperor of Japan. 194 pp., 50 pls. Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo.
  2. ↑ 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,
  3. ↑ Baba, K. (1961). Three new species of the genus Catriona from Japan (Nudibranchia - Eolidacea). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 9(2):367-372, pls. 14-15.
  4. ↑ Cuthona pinnifera Baba, 1961 at umiushi-zukan.com