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Cuthona nana

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Cuthona nana
Cuthona nana illustration from A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Cuthonidae
Genus: Cuthona
Species:
C. nana
Binomial name
Cuthona nana
(Alder & Hancock, 1842)[1]
Synonyms
  • Eolis nana Forbes,1840
  • Precuthona peachii (Alder & Hancock, 1848)

Cuthona nana is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cuthonidae.[2]

Taxonomic history

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This species was named in 1842. In 1848 the same authors described Eolis peachii from Fowey harbour, Cornwall. The two species were considered to be the same by Brown, 1980.[3]

Distribution

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Cuthona nana was described from specimens found under stones near low water mark at Cullercoats and Whitley Bay on the North Sea coast of England.[1] It is reported from the NE Atlantic from Greenland and Spitsbergen south to Brittany, France.[4]

Ecology

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Feeds on the hydroid Hydractinia echinata.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b Alder J. & Hancock A. (1842). Descriptions of several new species of nudibranchous mollusca found on the coast of Northumberland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9: 31-36
  2. ^ Gofas, S. (2014). Cuthona nana (Alder & Hancock, 1842). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-01-26
  3. ^ Brown, G. H. 1980. The British species of the aeolidacean family Tergipedidae (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) with a discussion of the genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 69(3):225-255.
  4. ^ Thompson, T.E. and Brown, G.H., 1984. Biology of Opisthobranch Molluscs, Volume II. The Ray Society. 229 pages 41 plates, 40 figures
  5. ^ Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Cuthona nana (Alder & Hancock, 1842).[In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland.