Cuthona

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Genus of gastropods

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::summary Genus of gastropods ::

| image = Cuthona sibogae.jpg | image_caption = Cuthona sibogae | taxon = Cuthona | authority = Alder & Hancock, 1855 | synonyms = |Precuthona |Odhner, 1929 |Xenocratena |Odhner, 1940

Cuthona is a genus of nudibranch in the family Cuthonidae.

Ecology

Cuthona species feed on hydroids, and have uniseriate radulae with polydentate radular teeth.

Taxonomic history

The type species of Cuthona is Cuthona nana, (Alder & Hancock, 1842). Some authorities consider the genera Catriona and Trinchesia to be synonymous with Cuthona. Most Cuthona species were transferred to other genera as a result of DNA phylogeny studies in 2016 and 2017.

Species

Species in the genus Cuthona include:

References

  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp

References

  1. 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 on 2015-02-09
  2. (1981). "A New Species of Tergipedid Nudibranch from the Coast of California". Journal of Molluscan Studies.
  3. Cella, K; Carmona Barnosi, L.; Ekimova, I; Chichvarkhin, A; Schepetov, D; Gosliner, T. M. (2016). [https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167800 ''A radical solution: The phylogeny of the nudibranch family Fionidae.''] PLoS ONE. 11(12): e0167800.
  4. Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Picton, B. (2017). [https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4324.1.1 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.
  5. Valdés, Á.; Moran, A.L.; Woods, H.A. 2012: Revision of several poorly known Antarctic aeolid nudibranch species (Mollusca: Gastropoda), with the description of a new species. ''Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom'', '''92'''(5): 1161-1174. {{doi. 10.1017/S0025315411000348
  6. Valdés A., Medrano S. & Bhave V. (2016). "A new species of ''Cuthona'' Alder and Hancock, 1855 (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia: Tergipedidae) from the Caribbean Sea". ''[[The Nautilus (journal). The Nautilus]]'' '''130'''(2): 72-78.

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