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Guyvalvoria paradoxa

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Species of gastropod

Guyvalvoria paradoxa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia

clade Aeolidida
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Tergipedidae
Genus: Guyvalvoria
Species: C. paradoxa
Binomial name
Guyvalvoria paradoxa
(Eliot, 1907)
Synonyms

Cuthonella paradoxa Eliot, 1907

Cuthona paradoxa is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tergipedidae.

Distribution

This species was described from Winter Quarters, Ross Sea, Antarctica. It has been reported from McMurdo Sound.

References

  1. www.biodiversitylibrary.org Eliot, C. N. E. 1907. Mollusca. IV. Nudibranchiata. National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904. Natural History 2,Mollusca, IV:1-28, 1 pl.p.24.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2014). Guyvalvoria paradoxa (Eliot, 1907). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at www.marinespecies.org on 2015-02-13
  3. Valdés Á., Moran A.L. & Woods H.A. (2012) Revision of several poorly known Antarctic aeolid nudibranch species (Mollusca: Gastropoda), with the description of a new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 92(5): 1161-1174.
Taxon identifiers
Guyvalvoria paradoxa
Cuthonella paradoxa
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