Catriona is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trinchesiidae.[1] All species were transferred to Tenellia as a result of a DNA phylogeny study in 2016.[2] It was reinstated in 2017 on the basis of DNA and morphological criteria.[3]

Catriona
Catriona aurantia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Catriona
Winckworth, 1941
Type species
Eolis aurantia
Alder & Hancock, 1842

Species within the genus Catriona include:[4]

Species names currently considered to be synonyms:

References

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  1. ^ Gosliner, T. M.; Griffiths, R. J. (1981). Description and revision of some South African aeolidacean Nudibranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda. Archived 2017-11-07 at the Wayback Machine Annals of the South African Museum. 84: 105-150
  2. ^ Cella, K; Carmona Barnosi, L.; Ekimova, I; Chichvarkhin, A; Schepetov, D; Gosliner, T. M. (2016). A radical solution: The phylogeny of the nudibranch family Fionidae. PLoS ONE. 11(12): e0167800.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2015). Catriona Winckworth, 1941. Archived 2015-02-10 at the Wayback Machine Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-09.