''Tenellia'' is a
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of
sea slug
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s, aeolid
nudibranch
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s,
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gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the
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Trinchesiidae
Trinchesiidae is a family of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Fionoidea.
Taxonomic history
This family was reinstated as a result of a molecular phylogenetics study.Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Picton, ...
.
[Gofas, S. (2004)]
''Tenellia'' A. Costa, 1866.
In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-23.
Taxonomic history
This was a small genus until a DNA
phylogeny
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of the former family Tergipedidae resulted in most species of ''
Cuthona
''Cuthona'' is a genus of nudibranch in the family Tergipedidae.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). ''Cuthona'' Alder & Hancock, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138543 ...
'' being transferred to this genus.
[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.
Miller (2004) restricted the genus ''Cuthona'' Alder & Hancock, 1855 to the type species, ''C. nana'' (Alder & Hancock, 1842), and transferred to the genus ''Trinchesia'' the rest of the species previously included in ''Cuthona''. Miller has been followed by some authors, and has not been followed by others - and there is currently much instability on the extension and contents of these two genera. Cella et al., 2016 hypothesised that the genus ''Tenellia'' should include many former ''Cuthona'' and ''Trinchesia'' species, with others being placed in new genera. Until the species listed here are re-investigated they are left by WoRMS in the genus ''Trinchesia''. They also showed that the type taxon of ''Trinchesia'' is a species complex.
The species were partly allocated to other genera as a result of another study, being placed in several smaller genera, ''
Catriona
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Diaphoreolis
''Diaphoreolis'' is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trinchesiidae
Trinchesiidae is a family of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Fionoidea.
Taxonomic ...
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Phestilla
''Phestilla'' is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trinchesiidae.
Its members are unusual in feeding on hard corals, unlike other members of the family Trinchesiidae which feed on hydroids. Adult ...
'', ''
Trinchesia
''Trinchesia'' is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trinchesiidae.Bouchet, P. (2014). ''Trinchesia'' Ihering, 1879. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org ...
'' and ''
Zelentia
''Zelentia'' is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trinchesiidae
Trinchesiidae is a family of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Fionoidea.
Taxonomic hist ...
''.
[Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Picton, B. (2017)]
Ontogeny as an important part of integrative taxonomy in tergipedid aeolidaceans (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with a description of a new genus and species from the Barents Sea.
Zootaxa. 4324(1): 1.
Species
Species within the genus ''Tenellia'' include:
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* '' Tenellia adspersa'' (Nordmann, 1845) - type species
* '' Tenellia fuscata'' (Gould, 1870)
Species now moved to other genera include:
* '']Tenellia acinosa
''Trinchesia acinosa'' is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.
Distribution
This species was described from New Caledonia. It has been reported from Japan and the Marshall Islands ...
'' (Risbec, 1928)
* ''Tenellia akibai
''Trinchesia akibai'' is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.
Distribution
This species was described from Sagami Bay, Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nih ...
'' (Baba, 1984)
* ''Tenellia albocrusta
''Trinchesia albocrusta,'' common name white-crusted aeolid, is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.
Distribution
This species was described from Pacific Grove, California, United ...
'' (MacFarland, 1966)
* '' Tenellia albopunctata'' (Schmekel, 1968)
* '' Tenellia alpha'' (Baba & Hamatani, 1963)
* '' Tenellia antarctica'' (Pfeffer in Martens & Pfeffer, 1886)
* ''Tenellia anulata
''Trinchesia anulata'' is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.Picton, B.; Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Trinchesia anulata (Baba, 1949). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed throu ...
'' (Baba, 1949)
* '' Tenellia barbadiana'' (Edmunds & Just, 1983)
* '' Tenellia behrensi'' (Hermosillo & Valdés, 2007)
* ''Tenellia beta
''Trinchesia beta'' is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusc in the family (biology), family Trinchesiidae.Marshall, B.; Rosenberg, G. (2016). Trinchesia beta (Baba & Abe, 1964). In: MolluscaBase ...
'' (Baba & Abe, 1964)
* '' Tenellia catachroma'' (Burn, 1963)
* '' Tenellia claviformis'' (Vicente, 1974)
* '' Tenellia columbiana'' (O'Donoghue, 1922)
* '' Tenellia correai'' (Ortea, Caballer & Moro, 2002)
* '' Tenellia crinita'' (Minichev, 1972)
* '' Tenellia destinyae'' (Hermosillo & Valdés, 2007)
* '' Tenellia diminutiva'' (Gosliner, 1980)
* '' Tenellia distans'' (Odhner, 1922)
* '' Tenellia divanica'' (Martynov, 2002)
* '' Tenellia diversicolor'' (Baba, 1975)
* '' Tenellia fidenciae'' (Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1999)
* '' Tenellia foliata'' (Forbes & Goodsir, 1839)
* '' Tenellia fructuosa'' (Bergh, 1892)
* '' Tenellia futairo'' (Baba, 1963)
* '' Tenellia genovae'' (O'Donoghue, 1929)
* '' Tenellia georgiana'' (Pfeffer in Martens & Pfeffer, 1886)
* '' Tenellia giarannae'' (Valdés, Moran & Woods, 2012 )
* '' Tenellia granosa'' (Schmekel, 1966)
* '' Tenellia gymnota'' (Couthouy, 1838)
* '' Tenellia hamanni'' (Behrens, 1987)
* '' Tenellia henrici'' (Eliot, 1916)
* '' Tenellia herrerai'' (Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2002)
* '' Tenellia ilonae'' (Schmekel, 1968)
* '' Tenellia iris'' (Edmunds & Just, 1983)
* '' Tenellia kanga'' (Edmunds, 1970)
* '' Tenellia kuiteri'' (Rudman, 1981)
* '' Tenellia lenkae'' (Martynov, 2002)
* '' Tenellia leopardina'' (Vayssière, 1888)
* '' Tenellia lizae'' (Angulo-Campillo & Valdés, 2003)
* '' Tenellia longi'' (Behrens, 1985)
* '' Tenellia luciae'' (Valdés, Medrano & Bhave, 2016)
* '' Tenellia lugubris'' (Bergh, 1870)
* '' Tenellia macquariensis'' (Burn, 1973)
* '' Tenellia maua'' (Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1960)
* '' Tenellia melanobrachia'' (Bergh, 1874)
* '' Tenellia millenae'' (Hermosillo & Valdés, 2007)
* '' Tenellia miniostriata'' (Schmekel, 1968)
* '' Tenellia minor'' (Rudman, 1981)
* '' Tenellia netsica'' (Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1960)
* '' Tenellia ocellata'' (Schmekel, 1966)
* '' Tenellia odhneri'' (Er. Marcus, 1959)
* '' Tenellia ornata'' (Baba, 1937)
* '' Tenellia pallida'' (Eliot, 1906)
* '' Tenellia paucicirra'' (Minichev, 1972)
* '' Tenellia perca'' (Er. Marcus, 1958)
* '' Tenellia phoenix'' (Gosliner, 1981)
* '' Tenellia pinnifera'' (Baba, 1949)
* '' Tenellia puellula'' (Baba, 1955)
* '' Tenellia pumilio'' (Bergh, 1871)
* '' Tenellia punicea'' (Millen, 1986)
* '' Tenellia pupillae'' (Baba, 1961)
* '' Tenellia pusilla'' (Bergh, 1898)
* '' Tenellia reflexa'' (Miller, 1977)
* '' Tenellia riosi'' (Hermosillo & Valdés, 2008)
* ''Tenellia rolleri
''Tenellia'' is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trinchesiidae.Gofas, S. (2004)''Tenellia'' A. Costa, 1866.In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-23. ...
'' (Gosliner & Behrens, 1988)
* '' Tenellia rubra'' (Edmunds, 1964)
* '' Tenellia rutila'' (MacFarland, 1966 as ''Cratena rutila'')
* '' Tenellia scintillans'' (Miller, 1977)
* '' Tenellia sibogae'' (Bergh, 1905)
* '' Tenellia sororum'' (Burn, 1964)
* '' Tenellia spadix'' (MacFarland, 1966 as ''Cratena spadix'')
* '' Tenellia speciosa'' (Macnae, 1954)
* '' Tenellia suecica'' (Odhner, 1940)
* '' Tenellia taita'' (Edmunds, 1970)
* '' Tenellia thelmae'' (Burn, 1964)
* '' Tenellia thompsoni'' (Garcia, Lopez-Gonzalez & Garcia-Gomez, 1991)
* '' Tenellia tina'' (Er. Marcus, 1957)
* '' Tenellia valentini'' (Eliot, 1907)
* '' Tenellia veronicae'' (A. E. Verrill, 1880)
* '' Tenellia virens'' (MacFarland, 1966)
* '' Tenellia viridiana'' (Burn, 1962)
* '' Tenellia willani'' (Cervera, Garcia-Gomez & Lopez-Gonzalez, 1992)
* '' Tenellia yamasui'' (Hamatani, 1993)
* '' Tenellia zelandica'' (Odhner, 1924)
References
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Trinchesiidae
Taxa named by Achille Costa