Tenellia yamasui
| Tenellia yamasui | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Aeolidacea |
| Family: | Trinchesiidae |
| Genus: | Tenellia |
| Species: | T. yamasui
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| Binomial name | |
| Tenellia yamasui (Hamatani, 1993)[1]
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Tenellia yamasui is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trinchesiidae.[2]
Distribution
This species was described from Okinawa, Japan.[1] 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.[3]
References
- ^ a b 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)
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Tenellia yamasui (Hamatani, 1993). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1783799 on 2026-03-02
- ^ 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
External links
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- Photos of Tenellia yamasui in the Sealife Collection