Tritonicula Myrakeenae
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''Tritonicula'' is a
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
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sea slug Sea slug is a common name for some Marine biology, marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial Slug, slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are Sea snail, sea snails (marine gastropod moll ...
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nudibranch Nudibranchs () are a group of soft-bodied marine gastropod molluscs, belonging to the order Nudibranchia, that shed their shells after their larval stage. They are noted for their often extraordinary colours and striking forms, and they have b ...
s, shell-less marine
gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
s in the family
Tritoniidae Tritoniidae is a taxonomic family of nudibranchs in the suborder Cladobranchia, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs.MolluscaBase (2018)Tritoniidae Lamarck, 1809.Accessed on 2021-01-01 This family includes some of the largest known nudibranch ...
.MolluscaBase eds. (2020)
MolluscaBase. ''Tritonicula'' Korshunova & Martynov, 2020.
Accessed on 2021-01-01.
It contains species previously included in ''Tritonia'' as a result of a revision of the family Tritoniidae.


Species

Species within the genus ''Tritonicula'' include: * '' Tritonicula bayeri'' (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967) * '' Tritonicula hamnerorum'' (Gosliner & Ghiselin, 1987) * '' Tritonicula myrakeenae'' (Bertsch & Osuna, 1986) * '' Tritonicula pickensi'' (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967) * ''
Tritonicula wellsi ''Tritonicula wellsi'', the sea whip slug, is a species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual ...
'' (Er. Marcus, 1961)


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q104882687 Tritoniidae Gastropod genera