Tenellia pallida

Tenellia pallida is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.[2]

Tenellia pallida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida
Superfamily:
Fionoidea
Family:
Fionidae
Genus:
Tenellia
Species:
T. pallida
Binomial name
Tenellia pallida
(Eliot, 1906)[1]
Synonyms
  • Amphorina pallida Eliot, 1906
  • Cuthona pallida (Eliot, 1906)

Taxonomic history

The species was first described, then named as Amphorina pallida by Charles Eliot.[1] Later it became poorly understood, then rarely known. It was rediscovered and redescribed in 2002 and placed it in the genus Cuthona.[3] Recently, a DNA phylogeny of the former family Tergipedidae resulted in most species of Cuthona being transferred to the genus Tenellia, including Cuthona pallida which became Tenellia pallida.[4]

Distribution

This species was described from the Cape Verde Islands.

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References
  1. Eliot, C. N. E. (1906). Report upon a collection of Nudibranchiata from the Cape Verd Islands, with notes by C. Crossland. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 7(3):131-159, p. 155, pl. 14.
  2. WoRMS (2014). Cuthona pallida (Eliot, 1906). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-03
  3. Ortea, J., L. Moro, and M. Caballer. 2002. Redescripción de Cuthona pallida (Eliot, 1906) (mollusca: nudibranchia) un pequeño eolidáceo de las islas de Cabo Verde y Canarias. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 13 (4): 123-132.
  4. 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.
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