Cavolinia tridentata

Cavolinia tridentata
Cavolinia tridentata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Euopisthobranchia
Order: Pteropoda
Family: Cavoliniidae
Genus: Cavolinia
Species:
C. tridentata
Binomial name
Cavolinia tridentata
(Forskål, 1775)[1]
Synonyms
  • Anomia tridentata Forskål, 1775 (basionym)
  • Cavolinia natans Abildgaard, 1791
  • Cleodora trifilis Troschel, 1854

Cavolinia tridentata is a species of sea butterflies, floating and swimming sea snails or sea slugs, pelagic marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cavoliniidae.[2] It is a common species and is wide spread, being found in European waters, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the Indian Ocean and in the Pacific Ocean. It lives in the photic zone of the ocean between 0 to 30m in depth.

  1. ^ Niebuhr C. (ed.) (1775). Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål, prof. Haun., post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr Hauniae [Copengagen], Möller, 1-164, 1 map.
  2. ^ Cavolinia tridentata (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 January 2019.