Trinchesia kuiteri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Trinchesia
Species:
T. kuiteri
Binomial name
Trinchesia kuiteri
(Rudman, 1981)[1]
Synonyms
  • Tenellia kuiteri (Rudman, 1981)
  • Cuthona kuiteri Rudman, 1981
  • Trinchesia kuiterorum (Rudman, 1981) (unjustified emendation)

Trinchesia kuiteri is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Green Point, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.[3]

Ecology

Trinchesia kuiteri feeds on the sponge associated solitary hydroid Zyzzyzus spongicola. In a remarkable adaptation the cerata have tentacle-like filaments which mimic the tentacles of the hydroid.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Rudman, W.B. (1981) Polyp mimicry in a new species of aeolid nudibranch mollusc. Journal of Zoology, London, 193: 421-427.
  2. ↑ Picton, B.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Trinchesia kuiteri (Rudman, 1981). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=847704 on 2017-12-06
  3. 1 2 Rudman, W.B., 1998 (October 14) Cuthona kuiteri Rudman, 1981. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  • Coleman N. (2008) Nudibranchs encyclopedia, catalogue of Asia/Indo-Pacific sea slugs. Neville Coleman's Underwater Geographic Pty Ltd, Queensland, Australia, 416 pp
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