Tenellia pallida explained

Tenellia pallida is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.^[1]

Taxonomic history

The species was first described, then named as Amphorina pallida by Charles Eliot. Later it became poorly understood, then rarely known. It was rediscovered and redescribed in 2002 and placed it in the genus Cuthona.^[2] Recently, a DNA phylogeny of the former family Tergipedidae resulted in most species of Cuthona being transferred to the genus Tenellia, including Cuthona pallida which became Tenellia pallida.^[3]

Distribution

This species was described from the Cape Verde Islands.

Notes and References

1. WoRMS (2014). Cuthona pallida (Eliot, 1906). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-03
2. Ortea, J., L. Moro, and M. Caballer. 2002. Redescripción de Cuthona pallida (Eliot, 1906) (mollusca: nudibranchia) un pequeño eolidáceo de las islas de Cabo Verde y Canarias. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 13 (4): 123-132.
3. 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.