Fiona pinnata

Fiona pinnata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia

clade Aeolidida
Superfamily:
Fionoidea
Family:
Fionidae
Genus:
Fiona
Species:
F. pinnata
Binomial name
Fiona pinnata
Synonyms[11]

Fiona pinnata, common name Fiona, is a species of small pelagic nudibranch (sea slug), a marine gastropod mollusk in the superfamily Fionoidea. This nudibranch species lives worldwide on floating objects on seas, and feeds mainly on barnacles, specifically goose barnacles in the genus Lepas.

The anatomy of this species is very unusual. It is currently the only named member of the genus Fiona but a 2016 study showed that this species is a species complex.[12] The family Fionidae was expanded in 2016 to include Tergipedidae, Eubranchidae and Calmidae as a result of a molecular phylogenetics study.[13] Features that are characteristic of the genus Fiona include[14] the similar-looking oral tentacles and rhinophores; the cerata with a membrane and lacking a cnidosac; a dorsal anal opening; a reproductive system with two genital openings; two jaws with a cutting-edge, and a radula with only one central denticle in each row of teeth. That one denticle has a central cusp and a few surrounding cusps.

Fiona pinnata
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  2. ^ Forsskål, P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium. Mölleri, Hauniae. 20 + xxxv + 164 pp., 1 map.
  3. ^ Alder J. & Hancock A. (October 1851). "Descriptions of two new species of nudibranchiate Mollusca, one of them forming the type of a new genus". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 2) 8 (46): 290-302, pls. 9-10.
  4. ^ Alder, Joshua; Hancock, Albany (1855). A Monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca: With Figures of All the Species. Ray Society. Part 7, Fam. 3, Pl. 38a.
  5. ^ Bergh, L. S. R. (1857). "Anatomisk Untersögelse af Fiona atlantica, Bgh." Videnskabelige meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske forening i Kjöbenhavn (18-21): 273-335, appendix pp. 336-337, pls. 2-3.
  6. ^ (in Italian) Costa, A. 1866. "Acquisti fatti durante l'anno 1863". Annuario del Museo Zoologico della Università di Napoli 3(for 1863)(2): 13-41.
  7. ^ (in Italian) Costa, A. (1867). "Acquisti fatti durante l'anno 1864". Annuario del Museo Zoologico della Università di Napoli 4 (for 1964): 29-30. Table 1, figure 1-3.
  8. ^ Hutton F. W. (1882) "Notes on some Branchiate Mollusca". Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 14: 162-167, Plate 6, image F and I.
  9. ^ (in German) Bergh, L. S. R. (1894). "Die Opisthobranchien. Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer “Albatross”, during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 25 (10): 125-233, pls. 1-12. Species description is on the page 130-132. Table 1, figures 13-15.
  10. ^ Suter H. (1913) Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Wellington, 1120 pp., pages 586-587.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference malacolog.org was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference TTW2016 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ Willan R. C. (1979) "New Zealand locality records for the aeolid nudibranch Fiona pinnata (Eschscholtz)". Tane 25: . PDF