Tochuina nigromaculata
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Tritoniidae |
| Genus: | Tochuina |
| Species: | T. nigromaculata
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| Binomial name | |
| Tochuina nigromaculata (Roginskaya, 1984)[1]
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Tochuina nigromaculata is a species of dendronotid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tritoniidae.[2]
Taxonomy
[edit]Originally described as a Tritonia this species was moved to the revised genus, Tochuina, in 2020 as a result of an integrative study of the family Tritoniidae.[3]
Distribution
[edit]Tochuina nigromaculata was described from the Okhotsk Sea. It is a deep water species.
References
[edit]- ^ Roginskaya I.S. (1984). A new species of deep-sea Tritoniidae (Opisthobranchia, Nudibranchia, Dendronotacea) from the slope of Kurile Islands. Trans. Shirshov Instit. Ocean. Acad. Sci. USSR. 119: 99–105.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Tochuina nigromaculata (Roginskaya, 1984). Accessed on 2021-01-06.
- ^ Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A. (2020). Consolidated data on the phylogeny and evolution of the family Tritoniidae (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) contribute to genera reassessment and clarify the taxonomic status of the neuroscience models Tritonia and Tochuina. PLOS ONE. 15(11): e0242103.