Tritonia (gastropod)

Not to be confused with Tritonia (plant).

Tritonia
A live individual of Tritonia festiva in situ, head end towards the right
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Tritoniidae
Genus: Tritonia
Cuvier, 1798[1]
Species

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Synonyms[2]
  • Candiella Gray, 1850
  • Euphurus Rafinesque, 1815 (Unnecessary substitute name for Tritonia)
  • Microlophus Mabille & Rochebrune, 1889 (Invalid: junior homonym of Microlophus Duméril & Bibron, 1837 [Reptilia]; Myrella is a replacement name)
  • Myrella Odhner, 1963

Tritonia is a genus of sea slugs, nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tritoniidae.[2]

Tritonia is the type genus of the family Tritoniidae.[2]

  1. ^ Cuvier G. (1798). Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux, page 387.
  2. ^ a b c MolluscaBase (2018). Tritonia Cuvier, 1798. Accessed on 2021-01-06.