Cuthona albocrusta
Cuthona albocrusta | |
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Cuthona albocrusta | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
Family: | Tergipedidae |
Genus: | Cuthona |
Species: | C. albocrusta |
Binomial name | |
Cuthona albocrusta (MacFarland, 1966)[1] | |
Synonyms | |
Cratena albocrusta MacFarland, 1966 |
Cuthona albocrusta, common name white-crusted aeolid, is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tergipedidae.[2]
Distribution
This species was described from Pacific Grove, California, United States.[1] It has been recorded along the Eastern Pacific coastline of North America from Prince William Sound, Alaska to La Paz, Baja California, Mexico.[3]
References
- 1 2 MacFarland, F. M. (1966). Studies of opisthobranchiate mollusks of the Pacific coast of North America. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 6:1-546, pls. 1-72. pages 340-344.
- ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2014). Cuthona albocrusta (MacFarland, 1966). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=581881 on 2015-01-28
- ↑ McDonald, G. (2015). Intertidal Invertebrates of the Monterey Bay Area, California.
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