Tritonia hombergii

Tritonia hombergii
Drawing of Tritonia hombergii from Kunstformen der Natur (1904)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Tritoniidae
Genus: Tritonia
Species:
T. hombergii
Binomial name
Tritonia hombergii
Cuvier, 1803[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Sphaerostoma jamesonii MacGillivray, 1843
  • Sphaerostoma jamiesoni MacGillivray, 1843
  • Tritonia alba Alder & Hancock, 1854
  • Tritonia atrofusca MacGillivray, 1843
  • Tritonia conifera Dalyell, 1853
  • Tritonia divaricata Dalyell, 1853
  • Tritonia hombergi Cuvier, 1803 [orth. error]
  • Tritonia pustulosa Deshayes, 1853

Tritonia hombergii is a species of dendronotid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tritoniidae.[2]


Tritonia hombergii is the type species of the genus Tritonia.

  1. ^ Cuvier G.L., (1803). Mémoire sur le genre Tritonia, avec la description et l'anatomie d'une espèce nouvelle, Tritonia hombergii. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle : 1:480-496, pl. 31-32.
  2. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Tritonia hombergii Cuvier, 1803. Accessed on 2021-01-07.