Cuthona

Cuthona is a genus of nudibranch in the family Tergipedidae.[1]

Cuthona
Cuthona sibogae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Infraorder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Cuthonidae
Genus: Cuthona
Alder & Hancock, 1855
Synonyms
  • Precuthona Odhner, 1929
  • Xenocratena Odhner, 1940

Ecology

Cuthona species feed on hydroids, and have uniseriate radulae with polydentate radular teeth.[2]

Taxonomic history

The type species of Cuthona is Cuthona nana, (Alder & Hancock, 1842). Some authorities consider the genera Catriona and Trinchesia to be synonymous with Cuthona. Most Cuthona species were transferred to other genera as a result of DNA phylogeny studies in 2016 and 2017.[3][4]

Species

Species in the genus Cuthona include:[1]

Species brought into synonymy
  • Cuthona abronia (MacFarland, 1966): synonym of Abronica abronia
  • Cuthona abyssicola (Bergh, 1884): synonym of Cuthonella abyssicola Bergh, 1884
  • Cuthona acinosa (Risbec, 1928): synonym of Tenellia acinosa
  • Cuthona akibai Baba, 1984: synonym of Tenellia akibai
  • Cuthona albocrusta (MacFarland, 1966): synonym of Tenellia albocrusta
  • Cuthona albopunctata (Schmekel, 1968): synonym of Tenellia albopunctata
  • Cuthona alpha Baba & Hamatani, 1963: synonym of Tenellia alpha (Baba & Hamatani, 1963)
  • Cuthona amoena (Alder & Hancock, 1845): synonym of Rubramoena amoena
  • Cuthona antarctica (Pfeffer in Martens & Pfeffer, 1886): synonym of Tenellia antarctica
  • Cuthona anulata (Baba, 1949): synonym of Tenellia anulata
  • Cuthona barbadiana Edmunds & Just, 1983: synonym of Tenellia barbadiana
  • Cuthona behrensi Hermosillo & Valdés, 2007: synonym of Tenellia behrensi
  • Cuthona berghi (Friele, 1902): synonym of Cuthonella berghi
  • Cuthona beta (Baba & Abe, 1964): synonym of Tenellia beta
  • Cuthona bractea Burn, 1962: synonym of Tularia bractea (Burn, 1962)
  • Cuthona caerulea (Montagu, 1804) synonym of Trinchesia caerulea
  • Cuthona claviformis Vicente, 1974: synonym of Tenellia claviformis
  • Cuthona cocoachroma Williams & Gosliner, 1979: synonym of Cuthonella cocoachroma
  • Cuthona columbiana (O'Donoghue, 1922): synonym of Tenellia columbiana
  • Cuthona concinna (Alder & Hancock, 1843): synonym of Cuthonella concinna
  • Cuthona correai Ortea, Caballer & Moro, 2002: synonym of Tenellia correai
  • Cuthona crinita Minichev, 1972: synonym of Tenellia crinita
  • Cuthona destinyae Hermosillo & Valdés, 2007: synonym of Tenellia destinyae
  • Cuthona diminutiva Gosliner, 1980: synonym of Tenellia diminutiva
  • Cuthona distans Odhner, 1922: synonym of Tenellia distans
  • Cuthona diversicolor Baba, 1975: synonym of Tenellia diversicolor
  • Cuthona elenae (Martynov, 2000): synonym of Cuthonella elenae
  • Cuthona elioti Odhner, 1944: synonym of Cuthonella elioti
  • Cuthona ferruginea (Friele, 1902): synonym of Cuthonella ferruginea
  • Cuthona fidenciae (Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1999): synonym of Tenellia fidenciae
  • Cuthona flavovulta (MacFarland, 1966): synonym of Tenellia flavovulta
  • Cuthona foliata (Forbes & Goodsir, 1839): synonym of Tenellia foliata
  • Cuthona fructuosa (Bergh, 1892): synonym of Tenellia fructuosa
  • Cuthona fulgens (MacFarland, 1966): synonym of Tenellia fulgens
  • Cuthona futairo Baba, 1963: synonym of Tenellia futairo
  • Cuthona genovae (O'Donoghue, 1929): synonym of Tenellia genovae
  • Cuthona georgiana (Pfeffer in Martens & Pfeffer, 1886): synonym of Tenellia georgiana
  • Cuthona giarannae Valdés, Moran & Woods, 2012 : synonym of Tenellia giarannae[5]
  • Cuthona granosa (Schmekel, 1966): synonym of Tenellia granosa
  • Cuthona gymnota (Couthouy, 1838): synonym of Tenellia gymnota
  • Cuthona hamanni Behrens, 1987: synonym of Tenellia hamanni
  • Cuthona henrici Eliot, 1916: synonym of Tenellia henrici
  • Cuthona herrerai Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2002: synonym of Tenellia herrerai
  • Cuthona hiemalis Roginskaya, 1987: synonym of Cuthonella hiemalis (Roginskaya, 1987)
  • Cuthona ilonae (Schmekel, 1968): synonym of Tenellia ilonae
  • Cuthona iris Edmunds & Just, 1983: synonym of Tenellia iris
  • Cuthona japonica Baba, 1937: synonym of Godiva japonica (Baba, 1937)
  • Cuthona kanga (Edmunds, 1970): synonym of Tenellia kanga
  • Cuthona kuiteri Rudman, 1981: synonym of Tenellia kuiteri
  • Cuthona lagunae (O'Donoghue, 1926): synonym of Tenellia lagunae
  • Cuthona leopardina (Vayssière, 1888): synonym of Tenellia leopardina
  • Cuthona lizae Angulo-Campillo & Valdés, 2003: synonym of Tenellia lizae
  • Cuthona longi Behrens, 1985: synonym of Tenellia longi
  • Cuthona luciae Valdés, Medrano & Bhave, 2016: synonym of Tenellia luciae[6]
  • Cuthona macquariensis (Burn, 1973): synonym of Tenellia macquariensis
  • Cuthona marisalbi Roginskaya, 1963: synonym of Cuthonella concinna (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  • Cuthona millenae Hermosillo & Valdés, 2007: synonym of Tenellia millenae
  • Cuthona miniostriata (Schmekel, 1968): synonym of Tenellia miniostriata
  • Cuthona modesta (Eliot, 1907): synonym of Cuthonella modesta
  • Cuthona netsica (Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1960): synonym of Tenellia netsica
  • Cuthona norvegica (Odhner, 1929): synonym of Cuthonella norvegica
  • Cuthona ocellata (Schmekel, 1966): synonym of Tenellia ocellata
  • Cuthona odhneri Er. Marcus, 1959: synonym of Tenellia odhneri
  • Cuthona ornata Baba, 1937: synonym of Tenellia ornata
  • Cuthona pallida (Eliot, 1906): synonym of Tenellia pallida
  • Cuthona paucicirra Minichev, 1972: synonym of Tenellia paucicirra
  • Cuthona perca (Er. Marcus, 1958): synonym of Tenellia perca
  • Cuthona peregrina (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Cratena peregrina (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Cuthona phoenix Gosliner, 1981: synonym of Tenellia phoenix
  • Cuthona pinnifera (Baba, 1949): synonym of Tenellia pinnifera
  • Cuthona poritophages Rudman, 1979: synonym of Tenellia poritophages
  • Cuthona puellula (Baba, 1955): synonym of Tenellia puellula
  • Cuthona pumilio Bergh, 1871: synonym of Tenellia pumilio
  • Cuthona punicea Millen, 1986: synonym of Tenellia punicea
  • Cuthona purpureoanulata (Baba, 1961): synonym of Abronica purpureoanulata
  • Cuthona pusilla (Bergh, 1898): synonym of Tenellia pusilla
  • Cuthona pustulata (Alder & Hancock, 1854): synonym of Tenellia pustulata
  • Cuthona riosi Hermosillo & Valdés, 2008: synonym of Tenellia riosi
  • Cuthona rolleri Gosliner & Behrens, 1988: synonym of Tenellia rolleri
  • Cuthona rosea MacFarland, 1966: synonym of Cuthona divae (Marcus, 1961)
  • Cuthona rubescens Picton & Brown, 1978: synonym of Rubramoena rubescens
  • Cuthona rubra (Edmunds, 1964): synonym of Tenellia rubra
  • Cuthona rutila (MacFarland, 1966 as Cratena rutila): synonym of Tenellia lagunae (O'Donoghue, 1926)
  • Cuthona schraderi (Pfeffer in Martens & Pfeffer, 1886): synonym of Guyvalvoria paradoxa (Eliot, 1907) (nomen dubium)
  • Cuthona scintillans Miller, 1977: synonym of Tenellia scintillans
  • Cuthona sibogae (Bergh, 1905): synonym of Tenellia sibogae
  • Cuthona spadix (MacFarland, 1966 as Cratena spadix): synonym of Tenellia columbiana (O'Donoghue, 1922)
  • Cuthona speciosa (Macnae, 1954): synonym of Tenellia speciosa
  • Cuthona stimpsoni A. E. Verrill, 1879: synonym of Flabellina salmonacea (Couthouy, 1838)
  • Cuthona suecica (Odhner, 1940): synonym of Tenellia suecica
  • Cuthona thompsoni Garcia, Lopez-Gonzalez & Garcia-Gomez, 1991: synonym of Tenellia thompsoni
  • Cuthona tina (Er. Marcus, 1957): synonym of Tenellia tina
  • Cuthona valentini (Eliot, 1907): synonym of Tenellia valentini
  • Cuthona veronicae (A. E. Verrill, 1880): synonym of Tenellia veronicae
  • Cuthona virens (MacFarland, 1966): synonym of Tenellia virens
  • Cuthona viridis (Forbes, 1840): synonym of Tenellia viridis
  • Cuthona willani Cervera, Garcia-Gomez & Lopez-Gonzalez, 1992: synonym of Tenellia willani
  • Cuthona yamasui Hamatani, 1993: synonym of Tenellia yamasui
  • Cuthona zelandica Odhner, 1924: synonym of Tenellia zelandica
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References
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  2. Gosliner, Terrence (1981). "A New Species of Tergipedid Nudibranch from the Coast of California". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 47 (2): 200–205.
  3. Cella, K; Carmona Barnosi, L.; Ekimova, I; Chichvarkhin, A; Schepetov, D; Gosliner, T. M. (2016). A radical solution: The phylogeny of the nudibranch family Fionidae. PLoS ONE. 11(12): e0167800.
  4. Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Picton, B. (2017). Ontogeny as an important part of integrative taxonomy in tergipedid aeolidaceans (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with a description of a new genus and species from the Barents Sea. Zootaxa. 4324(1): 1.
  5. 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. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 92(5): 1161-1174. doi:10.1017/S0025315411000348
  6. Valdés A., Medrano S. & Bhave V. (2016). "A new species of Cuthona Alder and Hancock, 1855 (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia: Tergipedidae) from the Caribbean Sea". The Nautilus 130(2): 72-78.
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
  • Data related to Cuthona at Wikispecies
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