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Cuthonella elioti

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Fionidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Fionoidea

Genus
  
Cuthonella

Cuthonella elioti is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae. It is a replacement name for Cuthonella antarctica Eliot, 1907 (non Aeolis antarctica Pfeffer in Martens & Pfeffer, 1886).

Distribution

This species was described from Winter Quarters Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica. It has been found on several occasions in McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica 77°51′02.31″S 166°39′56.07″E.

References

Cuthonella elioti Wikipedia