Pseudunela cornuta

Pseudunela cornuta
Schematic drawing of dorsal view of Pseudunela cornuta.
  • f – foot
  • hb – heart bulb
  • lt – labial tentacle
  • rh – rhinophore
  • vh – visceral hump.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Acochlidiacea
clade Hedylopsacea[1]
Family:
Pseudunelidae
Genus:
Pseudunela
Species:
P. cornuta
Binomial name
Pseudunela cornuta
(Challis, 1970)[2]
Synonyms

Hedylopsis cornuta Challis, 1970

Pseudunela cornuta is a species of minute sea slug, an acochlidian, a shell-less marine and temporarily brackish[3] gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudunelidae. Adults are about 3 mm long and live in the spaces between sand grains.

A complex interactive 3D reconstruction (a 3D visualization based on 420 paraffin histological sections) of the body of an individual of this species has been available since 2009.[4]

  1. ^ Schrödl M. & Neusser T. P. (2010). "Towards a phylogeny and evolution of Acochlidia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158: 124-154. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00544.x.
  2. ^ Challis D. A. (1970). "Hedylopsis cornuta and Microhedyle verrucosa, two new Acochlidiacea (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) from the Solomon Islands Protectorate". Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Biological Sciences 12: 29-40.
  3. ^ Neusser T. P., Jörger K. M. & Schrödl M. (2011). "Cryptic Species in Tropic Sands – Interactive 3D Anatomy, Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Meiofaunal Pseudunelidae (Gastropoda, Acochlidia)". PLoS ONE 6(8): e23313. figure 12. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023313.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Neusser was invoked but never defined (see the help page).