Trinchesia pallida
| Trinchesia pallida | |
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| A live specimen of Trinchesia pallida | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Aeolidacea |
| Family: | Trinchesiidae |
| Genus: | Trinchesia |
| Species: | T. pallida |
| Binomial name | |
| Trinchesia pallida | |
| Synonyms[2][3] | |
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Trinchesia pallida is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.[2]
This species was described from the Cape Verde Islands.
As of 2025, this animal is currently placed in Trinchesia pending genus revision, with the understanding that it, along with the rest of Trinchesia sensu latissimo, belong to yet undescribed genera.[3]
References
- ↑ Eliot, C. N. E. (1906). Report upon a collection of Nudibranchiata from the Cape Verde islands, with notes by C. Crossland. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 7(3): 131-159.
- 1 2 MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Cuthona pallida (Eliot, 1906). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2026-04-23
- 1 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,