Cuthonella

Cuthonella
Cuthonella abyssicola kryos
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Aeolidacea
Family: Cuthonellidae
Genus: Cuthonella
Bergh, 1884

Cuthonella is a genus of sea slugs, specifically aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cuthonellidae.

Species

Species within the genus Cuthonella include:

Known species not provided with an alternate placement in Korshunova et al. (2025):

Species originally described in Cuthonella but currently placed in synonymy include:

References

  1. ↑ Bergh R. (1884). Report on the Nudibranchiata collected by HMS Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Reports of the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger", Zoology 10 (part 26): 1-154, pl. 1-14 page(s): 23
  2. 1 2 3 Vinarski, M. (2024). Cuthonella Bergh, 1884. In: MolluscaBase (2026). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2026-03-06.
  3. ↑ Cella, K; Carmona Barnosi, L.; Ekimova, I; Chichvarkhin, A; Schepetov, D; Gosliner, T. M. (2016). A radical solution: The phylogeny of the nudibranch family Fionidae. PLoS ONE. 11(12): e0167800.
  4. 1 2 Korshunova T.; Fletcher K.; Martynov A. (2025). The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 204, Issue 4, August 2025, zlaf057,