Tenellia leopardina
Tenellia leopardina is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.[2]
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Dexiarchia clade Cladobranchia clade Aeolidida |
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| Species: | T. leopardina |
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| Tenellia leopardina (Vayssière, 1888) [1] | |
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Distribution
This species was described from Marseille, France. In the original description it was also reported from the Rade de Villefranche-sur-Mer, Genoa, Italy, and near Trieste.[1]
Description
The typical adult size of this species is 10 mm.
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References
- Vayssière A. (1888). Recherches zoologiques et anatomiques sur les mollusques opisthobranches du Golfe de Marseille pt. 2. Nudibranches (Cirrobranches) et Ascoglosses. Annales du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Marseille 3 (4): 1-160. Cuthona leopardina as Amphorina alberti var. leopardina Vayssière, 1888 p. 55-60
- Gofas, S. (2014). Cuthona leopardina (Vayssière, 1888). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-14
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