Catriona (gastropod)

Catriona
Catriona aurantia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Aeolidacea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Catriona
Winckworth, 1941
Type species
Eolis aurantia
Alder & Hancock, 1842

Catriona is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trinchesiidae.[1] All species were transferred to Tenellia as a result of a DNA phylogeny study in 2016.[2] It was reinstated in 2017 on the basis of DNA and morphological criteria.[3]

Species within the genus Catriona include:[4]

Species names currently considered to be synonyms:

  • Catriona anulata (Baba, 1949): synonym of Trinchesia anulata (Baba, 1949)
  • Catriona beta (Baba & Abe 1964): synonym of Tenellia beta (Baba & Abe 1964)
  • Catriona casha (Gosliner & R. J. Griffiths, 1981): synonym of Tenellia casha (Gosliner & R. J. Griffiths, 1981)
  • Catriona catachroma (Burn, 1963) synonym of Trinchesia catachroma (Burn, 1963)
  • Catriona columbiana (O'Donoghue, 1922): synonym of Tenellia columbiana(O'Donoghue, 1922)
  • Catriona gymnota (Couthouy, 1838): synonym of Tenellia gymnota (Couthouy, 1838)
  • Catriona kishiwadensis (Martynov, Korshunova, Lundin & Malmberg, 2022): synonym of Tenellia kishiwadensis (Martynov, Korshunova, Lundin & Malmberg, 2022)
  • Catriona ornata (Baba, 1937): synonym of Trinchesia ornata (Baba, 1937)
  • Catriona perca (Marcus Er., 1958) synonym of Cuthona perca (Er. Marcus, 1958)
  • Catriona puellula (Baba, 1955): synonym of Cuthona puellula (Baba, 1955)
  • Catriona pupillae Baba, 1961 synonym of Trinchesia pupillae (Baba, 1961)
  • Catriona viridiana (Burn, 1962) synonym of Trinchesia viridiana (Burn, 1962)

References

  1. ^ Gosliner, T. M.; Griffiths, R. J. (1981). Description and revision of some South African aeolidacean Nudibranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda. Archived 2017-11-07 at the Wayback Machine Annals of the South African Museum. 84: 105-150
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2015). Catriona Winckworth, 1941. MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Catriona Winckworth, 1941. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138542 on 2026-03-03