Tochuina tetraquetra

Tochuina tetraquetra, common name the giant orange tochui, is a species of sea slug, a tritonid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tritoniidae.[2]

Tochuina tetraquetra
A live individual of Tochuina tetraquetra, in situ, head end towards the camera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Dendronotida
Superfamily:
Tritonioidea
Family:
Tritoniidae
Genus:
Tochuina
Species:
T. tetraquetra
Binomial name
Tochuina tetraquetra
(Pallas, 1788)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Limax tetraquetra Pallas, 1788 (basionym)
  • Tritonia diomedea Bergh, 1894
  • Tritonia gigantea Bergh, 1904

Bergh (1879) used the name Tritonia tetraquetra in a sense different from Pallas (1788). The oldest valid name for Tochuina tetraquetra sensu Bergh, 1879 is Tritonia gigantea Bergh, 1904.[2]

References
  1. Pallas P. S. (1788). "Marina varia nova et rariora". Nova Acta Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. 2: 229-250.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2012). Tochuina tetraquetra. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=248351 on 2012-06-03
  • Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp.
  • Martynov A.V. (2009) Opisthobranch Mollusca of Russia: the neglected diversity of cold waters. Abstracts and Papers from the 39th Annual Meeting of the Western Society of Malacologists. The Western Society of Malacologists, Annual Report 39: 22-23.

Further reading
  • (in Japanese) Baba K. 1968. [A collection of Tochuina tetraquetra (Pallas, 1788) from Shirikishinai, Hokkaido, Japan (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia).] Collecting & Breeding [Saishu to Shiiku] 30(8):257-258, figs. 1-5.
  • Baba, K. 1969. "Range extension of Tochuina tetraquetra (Pallas, 1788) to Hokkaido, North Japan (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia)". Veliger 12(1):134.
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