Tochuina gigantea

Tochuina gigantea
A live individual of Tochuina gigantea, in situ, head end towards the camera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Tritoniidae
Genus: Tochuina
Species:
T. gigantea
Binomial name
Tochuina gigantea
Bergh, 1904[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Tritonia gigantea Bergh, 1904 (original combination)
  • Tritonia tetraquetra (Pallas, 1788) sensu Bergh, 1879

Tochuina gigantea, common name the giant orange tochui, is a species of sea slug, a tritonid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tritoniidae.[2]

Bergh (1879) used the name Tritonia tetraquetra in a sense different from Pallas (1788). The valid name for Tochuina tetraquetra sensu Bergh, 1879 is Tritonia gigantea Bergh, 1904.[2][3] The complicated series of misinterpretations of Pallas' and Bergh's species are explained in a 2020 revision of the family Tritoniidae.[4]

  1. ^ Bergh, L. S. R. (1904). Malacologische Untersuchungen. In: Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen von Dr. Carl Gottfried Semper. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaftliche Resultate, Vol. 9, Chapter 6, Part 1: 1-56, pls. 1-4, page(s): 26-28, pl. 4 fig. 29-32
  2. ^ a b c MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Tochuina gigantea (Bergh, 1904). Accessed on 2021-01-06.
  3. ^ Martynov A.V. (2009) Opisthobranch Mollusca of Russia: the neglected diversity of cold waters. Abstracts and Papers from the 39th Annual Meeting of the Western Society of Malacologists. The Western Society of Malacologists, Annual Report 39: 22-23.
  4. ^ Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A. (2020). Consolidated data on the phylogeny and evolution of the family Tritoniidae (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) contribute to genera reassessment and clarify the taxonomic status of the neuroscience models Tritonia and Tochuina. PLOS ONE. 15(11): e0242103.