Trinchesia pupillae

Trinchesia pupillae is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.[2]

Trinchesia pupillae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Infraorder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Trinchesia
Species:
T. pupillae
Binomial name
Trinchesia pupillae
(Baba), 1961[1]
Synonyms
  • Catriona pupillae Baba, 1961
  • Cuthona pupillae (Baba, 1961)
  • Tenellia pupillae (Baba, 1961)

Distribution

This species was described from shallow water at Tannowa and Kada, Osaka Bay, Pacific Ocean coast, Japan. The original description also lists additional localities of Mukaishima, Inland Sea of Seto; Nou and Awashima, Niigata Prefecture; Toyama Bay and Tsuruga Bay, Sea of Japan coast. The species is also reported from Oyster Bay, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.[3]

Description

The adult size of Tenellia pupillae is only 3–5 mm. It has swollen cerata and extensive white surface pigmentation on the body and cerata, with an orange ring on the rhinophores and oral tentacles.[4]

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References
  1. Baba K. (1961). Three new species of the genus Catriona from Japan (Nudibranchia-Eolidacea). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 9(2): 367-372. [20 December 1961]
  2. Bouchet, P. (2011). Trinchesia pupillae (Baba, 1961). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=572092 on 2017-12-06
  3. Edmunds, M. 1970. Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Tanzania. II. Eolidacea (Cuthonidae, Piseinotecidae and Facelinidae). Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 39:15-57.
  4. Cuthona pupillae at Umiushi.info
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