''Trinchesia'' is a
genus
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of
sea slug
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s, aeolid
nudibranch
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s,
marine gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusc
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s in the
family
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Trinchesiidae.
[Bouchet, P. (2014). ''Trinchesia'' Ihering, 1879. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391297 on 2015-02-09] All species were transferred to ''
Tenellia'' as a result of a DNA phylogeny study in 2016. The genus was dismembered and broken into several smaller genera in 2017 with further DNA evidence and a re-interpretation of genus and family characteristics.
[Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Picton, B. (2017)]
Ontogeny as an important part of integrative taxonomy in tergipedid aeolidaceans (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with a description of a new genus and species from the Barents Sea.
Zootaxa. 4324(1): 1.
''Trinchesia'' species feed on
hydroids.
Species
Species in the genus ''Trinchesia'' included:
* ''
Trinchesia acinosa''
(Risbec, 1928)
* ''
Trinchesia akibai''
(Baba, 1984)
* ''
Trinchesia albocrusta''
(MacFarland, 1966)
* ''
Trinchesia albopunctata''
Schmekel, 1968
* ''
Trinchesia alpha''
(Baba & Hamatani, 1963)
* ''
Trinchesia anulata''
(Baba, 1949)
* ''
Trinchesia beta''
(Baba & Abe, 1964)
* ''
Trinchesia caerulea''
(Montagu, 1804) - type species of ''Trinchesia''
* ''
Trinchesia catachroma''
(Burn, 1963)
* ''
Trinchesia colmani''
(Burn, 1961)
* ''
Trinchesia divanica''
Martynov, 2002
* ''
Trinchesia foliata''
(Forbes & Goodsir, 1839)
* ''
Trinchesia genovae''
(O'Donoghue, 1929)
* ''
Trinchesia granosa''
Schmekel, 1966
* ''
Trinchesia hiranorum''
Martynov, Sanamyan & Korshunova, 2015
* ''
Trinchesia ilonae''
Schmekel, 1968
* ''
Trinchesia kanga''
Edmunds, 1970
* ''
Trinchesia kuiteri''
(Rudman, 1981)
* ''
Trinchesia lenkae''
Martynov, 2002
* ''
Trinchesia macquariensis''
Burn, 1973
* ''
Trinchesia midori''
Martynov, Sanamyan & Korshunova, 2015
* ''
Trinchesia miniostriata''
Schmekel, 1968
* ''
Trinchesia ocellata''
Schmekel, 1966
* ''
Trinchesia ornata''
(Baba, 1937)
* ''
Trinchesia pupillae''
(Baba, 1961)
* ''
Trinchesia reflexa''
(Miller, 1977)
* ''
Trinchesia scintillans''
(M. C. Miller, 1977)
* ''
Trinchesia sibogae''
(Bergh, 1905)
* ''
Trinchesia sororum''
Burn, 1964
* ''
Trinchesia speciosa''
(Macnae, 1954)
* ''
Trinchesia taita''
Edmunds, 1970
* ''
Trinchesia thelmae''
(Burn, 1964)
* ''
Trinchesia virens''
(MacFarland, 1966)
* ''
Trinchesia viridiana''
(Burn, 1962)
* ''
Trinchesia yamasui''
(Hamatani, 1993)
* ''
Trinchesia zelandica''
(Odhner, 1924)
Species names currently considered to be synonyms:
* ''Trinchesia pustulata''
(Alder & Hancock, 1854) synonym of ''
Zelentia pustulata''
(Alder & Hancock, 1854)
* ''Trinchesia viridis''
(Forbes, 1840) synonym of ''
Diaphoreolis viridis''
(Forbes, 1840)
References
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Trinchesiidae
Taxa named by Hermann von Ihering