Trinchesiidae

Family of gastropods

Trinchesiidae

dorsal view of Trinchesia caerulea
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Heterobranchia
Order:  | Nudibranchia
Suborder:  | Cladobranchia
Superfamily:  | Fionoidea
Family:  | Trinchesiidae
Nordsieck, 1972
Genera

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Trinchesiidae is a family of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Fionoidea.[1]

## Taxonomic history[edit]

This family was reinstated as a result of a molecular phylogenetics study.[2]

## Genera[edit]

Genera within the family Trinchesiidae include:

* Catriona Winckworth, 1941
* Diaphoreolis Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923
* Phestilla Bergh, 1874
* Rubramoena Cella, Carmona, Ekimova, Chichvarkhin, Schepetov & Gosliner, 2016
* Selva Edmunds, 1964
* Tenellia A. Costa, 1866
* Trinchesia Ihering, 1879
* Zelentia Ihering, 1879

Genera and subfamilies currently brought into synonymy

* Narraeolida Burn, 1961 synonym of Trinchesia Ihering, 1879
* Toorna Burn, 1964: synonym of Trinchesia Ihering, 1879

## References[edit]

1. ^ Bouchet, P.; Picton, B.; Gofas, S. (2017). Trinchesiidae F. Nordsieck, 1972. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2017-11-01
2. ^ Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Picton, B. (2017). Ontogeny as an important part of integrative taxonomy in tergipedid aeolidaceans (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with a description of a new genus and species from the Barents Sea. Zootaxa. 4324(1): 1.

## External links[edit]

* Media related to Trinchesiidae at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Trinchesiidae|

* Wikidata: Q48998304
* Wikispecies: Trinchesiidae
* AFD: Trinchesiidae
* BOLD: 801097
* CoL: 7NLFD
* GBIF: 4360272
* iNaturalist: 564605
* IRMNG: 120799
* NBN: NHMSYS0021184917
* NCBI: 2053715
* Open Tree of Life: 730605
* WoRMS: 151283