Trinchesia futairo
| Trinchesia futairo | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Aeolidacea |
| Family: | Trinchesiidae |
| Genus: | Trinchesia |
| Species: | T. futairo |
| Binomial name | |
| Trinchesia futairo | |
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Trinchesia futairo is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.[2]
Distribution
This species was described from Mukaishima, Inland Sea of Seto, Japan. Also reported from Mutsu Bay, Sagami Bay; Sugashima near Toba, Osaka Bay, Saeki Bay, Amakusa and Toyama Bay in the original description.[1]
Description
The typical adult size of this species is 10 mm. The body is pale orange-yellow with the tips of the oral tentacles and rhinophores deeper orange-yellow. The oral tentacles have a longitudinal opaque white band on the posterior side. The cerata have an opaque white mark below the tip on the outer surface.[3]
References
- 1 2 Baba K. (1963). The anatomy of Cuthona futairo n. sp. (= C. bicolor of Baba, 1933) (Nudibranchia Eolidoidea). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 11(1): 109-117. [20 July 1963]
- ↑ 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,
- ↑ Takaoka Biological Club, (2004). Trinchesia futairo, Sea Slug from the Japan Sea coasts of Middle Japan.