''Tochuina gigantea'',
common name
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the giant orange tochui, is a
species
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of
sea slug
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, a tritonid
nudibranch
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, a
marine gastropod
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mollusk
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in the family
Tritoniidae
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.
Bergh (1879) used the name ''
Tritonia tetraquetra
''Tochuina gigantea'', common name the giant orange tochui, is a species of sea slug, a tritonid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tritoniidae
Tritoniidae is a taxonomic family of nudibranchs in the suborder Cladobranch ...
'' in a sense different from Pallas (1788). The valid name for ''Tochuina tetraquetra'' sensu Bergh, 1879 is ''
Tritonia gigantea'' Bergh, 1904.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020)]
MolluscaBase. Tochuina gigantea (Bergh, 1904).
Accessed on 2021-01-06. The complicated series of misinterpretations of Pallas' and Bergh's species are explained in a 2020 revision of the family Tritoniidae.
[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.
References
Further reading
*
Baba K. 1968.
collection of ''Tochuina tetraquetra'' (Pallas, 1788) from Shirikishinai, Hokkaido, Japan (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia).Collecting & Breeding
aishu to Shiiku30(8):257-258, figs. 1-5.
* Baba, K. 1969. "Range extension of ''Tochuina tetraquetra'' (Pallas, 1788) to Hokkaido, North Japan (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia)". ''Veliger'' 12(1):134.
External links
* Joseph L. Sevigny, Lauren E. Kirouac, William Kelley Thomas, Jordan S. Ramsdell, Kayla E. Lawlor, Osman Sharifi, Simarvir Grewal, Christopher Baysdorfer, Kenneth Curr, Amanda A. Naimie, Kazufusa Okamoto, James A. Murray, James M. Newcomb, 201
The Mitochondrial Genomes of the Nudibranch Mollusks, Melibe leonina and ''Tritonia diomedea'', and their Impact on Gastropod Phylogeny.PLOS, ONE May 21, 2015
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Tritoniidae
Gastropods described in 1788