Cuthona, Alder & Hancock, 1855

Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, Zootaxa 4359 (1), pp. 1-133 : 101

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scientific name	Cuthona
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Treatment

Cuthona sp. 4

( Figure 31 F)

Material examined. One specimen. MB28-005048, NS, 14m, 14mm.

Habitats. Seagrass patch with sand and coral bommies in the tropical region. Occurrences. Nuarro.

Geographic distribution. Western Indian Ocean. Kenya ( Faveri 2010) and Mozambique. Remarks. Gosliner et al. (2015) illustrate a similar undescribed species from the Pacific ( Cuthona sp. 18, pg. 346), suggesting a potential Indo-west Pacific distribution.

References

Faveri, A. (2010) Trinchesa sp., Nuipixel, Malandi, Kenya. Available from: http: // www. nudipixel. net / photo / 00031758 / (accessed 26 July 2017)

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
Order	Nudibranchia
Family	Tergipedidae

Specimens