Cuthona gymnota

Cuthona gymnota
The nudibranch Cuthona gymnota, Gulen Dive Resort, Norway.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Dexiarchia clade Cladobranchia clade Aeolidida
Superfamily:	Fionoidea
Family:	Tergipedidae
Genus:	Cuthona
Species:	C. gymnota
Binomial name
Cuthona gymnota (Couthouy, 1838)[1]
Synonyms
Aeolis bellula Lovén, 1846 Catriona aurantia (Alder & Hancock, 1842) Catriona gymnota (Couthouy, 1838) (Currently placed in genus Cuthona) Cratena gymnota (Couthouy, 1838) Eolis aurantia Alder & Hancock, 1842 Eolis aurantiaca Alder & Hancock, 1851 Eolis gymnota Couthouy, 1838 Eolis sanguifera Dalyell, 1853 Montagua gouldi Verrill, 1874

Cuthona gymnota is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tergipedidae. Eolis aurantia, a subjective synonym of this species, is the type species of the genus Catriona Winckworth, 1941.^[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Massachusetts Bay, on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the USA. It is reported from the NE Atlantic from Norway south to Portugal and the Mediterranean Sea and the NW Atlantic from Canada to New Jersey.^[3]

References

1. Couthouy J. P. (1838). Descriptions of new species of Mollusca and shells, and remarks on several Polypii, found in Massachusetts Bay. Boston Journal of Natural History 2 (1): 53-111, pl. 1-3
2. Gofas, S. (2015). Cuthona gymnota (Couthouy, 1838). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153380 on 2016-02-28
3. Rudman, W.B., 2000 (September 17). Cuthona gymnota (Couthouy, 1838). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.