Catriona (gastropod) explained
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]
- Catriona aurantia (Alder & Hancock, 1842) - type species of Catriona
- Catriona casha Gosliner & Griffiths, 1981
- Catriona columbiana (O'Donoghue, 1922)
- Catriona gymnota (Couthouy, 1838)
- Catriona lonca Er. Marcus, 1965
- Catriona maua Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1960
- Catriona nigricolora (Baba, 1955)
- Catriona oba Ev. Marcus, 1970
- Catriona pinnifera (Baba, 1949)
- Catriona rickettsi Behrens, 1984
- Catriona signifera Baba, 1961
- Catriona susa Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1960
- Catriona tema Edmunds, 1968
- Catriona urquisa Er. Marcus, 1965
- Catriona venusta (Baba, 1949)
Species names currently considered to be synonyms:
- Catriona anulata (Baba, 1949): synonym of Trinchesia anulata (Baba, 1949)
- Catriona catachroma Burn, 1963 synonym of Trinchesia catachroma (Burn, 1963)
- 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)
Notes and References
- Gosliner, T. M.; Griffiths, R. J. (1981). Description and revision of some South African aeolidacean Nudibranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda. Annals of the South African Museum. 84: 105-150
- 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.
- 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.
- Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2015). Catriona Winckworth, 1941. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-09.
