• Source: Cuthona nana

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




Taxonomic history


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.




Distribution


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. It is reported from the NE Atlantic from Greenland and Spitsbergen south to Brittany, France.




Ecology


Feeds on the hydroid Hydractinia echinata.




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Cuthona nana
• Cuthona
• Nudibranch
• List of Nudibranchia of Ireland
• Cratena
• Tenellia
• List of gastropods described in 2016