Cuthona nana
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| Cuthona nana illustration from A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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| Species: | C. nana
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Cuthona nana is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tergipedidae.[2]
Taxonomic history[edit]
This species was named in 1842. In 1848 the same authors described Eolis peachii from Fowey harbour, Cornwall. The two species were considered to be the same by Brown, 1980.[3]
Distribution[edit]
Cuthona nana was described from specimens found under stones near low water mark at Cullercoats and Whitley Bay on the North Sea coast of England.[1] It is reported from the NE Atlantic from Greenland and Spitsbergen south to Brittany, France.[4]
Ecology[edit]
Feeds on the hydroid Hydractinia echinata.[5]
References[edit]
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- ^ a b Alder J. & Hancock A. (1842). Descriptions of several new species of nudibranchous mollusca found on the coast of Northumberland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9: 31-36
- ^ Gofas, S. (2014). Cuthona nana (Alder & Hancock, 1842). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-01-26
- ^ Brown, G. H. 1980. The British species of the aeolidacean family Tergipedidae (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) with a discussion of the genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 69(3):225-255.
- ^ Thompson, T.E. and Brown, G.H., 1984. Biology of Opisthobranch Molluscs, Volume II. The Ray Society. 229 pages 41 plates, 40 figures
- ^ Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Cuthona nana (Alder & Hancock, 1842).[In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland.