''Trinchesia yamasui'' is a
species of
sea slug, an aeolid
nudibranch, a shell-less
marine
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the family
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, ...
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[Picton, B.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Trinchesia yamasui (Hamatani, 1993). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=847706 on 2017-12-07]
Distribution
This species was described from
Okinawa,
Japan
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[Hamatani, I (1993) ''A new cuthonid species (Nudibranchia, Aeolidacea), ''Cuthona yamasui'' n.sp., from Okinawa, Southwestern Japan.'' Venus, The Japanese Journal of Malacology, 52(2): 127-133. (Figs 1-3)] It has been reported from many places in the
Indo-West Pacific region but some of these records are now known to be members of a species complex.
[Cella K., Carmona 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. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0167800
References
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Trinchesiidae
Gastropods described in 1993