Tenellia yamasui

Tenellia yamasui
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Aeolidacea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Tenellia
Species:
T. yamasui
Binomial name
Tenellia yamasui
(Hamatani, 1993)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cuthona yamasui Hamatani, 1993
  • Trinchesia yamasui (Hamatani, 199)

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

  1. ^ 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)
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ 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