Cuthonella Explained

Cuthonella is a genus of sea slugs, specifically aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cuthonellidae.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Cuthonella include:^[2]

• Cuthonella abyssicola Bergh, 1884
• Cuthonella berghi Friele, 1902
• Cuthonella cocoachroma (Williams & Gosliner, 1979)
• Cuthonella concinna (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
• Cuthonella elenae Martynov, 2000
• Cuthonella elioti Odhner, 1944
• Cuthonella ferruginea Friele, 1902
• Cuthonella hiemalis (Roginskaya, 1987)
• Cuthonella modesta Eliot, 1907
• Cuthonella norvegica Odhner, 1929
• Cuthonella osyoro (Baba, 1940)
• Cuthonella soboli Martynov, 1992

Species originally described in Cuthonella but currently placed in synonymy include:

• Cuthonella antarctica Eliot, 1907 synonym of Cuthonella elioti Odhner, 1944
• Cuthonella paradoxa Eliot, 1907 synonym of Guyvalvoria paradoxa (Eliot, 1907)

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2016). Cuthonella Bergh, 1884. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-22.
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.