Trinchesia macquariensis
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Aeolidacea |
| Family: | Trinchesiidae |
| Genus: | Trinchesia |
| Species: | T. macquariensis |
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| Trinchesia macquariensis | |
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Trinchesia macquariensis is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.[2][3]
Distribution
This species was described from Buckles Bay, Macquarie Island, 54°29′49″S 158°56′07″E / 54.4969°S 158.9353°E.[1]
Description
The adult size of this species is up to 5 mm in length.[4]
References
- 1 2 Burn, R. F. (1973). Opisthobranch molluscs from the Australian sub-Antarctic territories of Macquarie and Heard Islands. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 86(1):39-46.
- ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Tenellia macquariensis (Burn, 1973). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1793355 on 2026-03-02
- ↑ 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,
- ↑ Valdés Á., Moran A.L. & Woods H.A. (2012) Revision of several poorly known Antarctic aeolid nudibranch species (Mollusca: Gastropoda), with the description of a new species. Archived 2014-06-30 at the Wayback Machine Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 92(5): 1161-1174.