Trinchesia caerulea
| Tenellia caerulea | |
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| Tenellia caerulea, Mediterranean form | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
| Family: | Tergipedidae |
| Genus: | Tenellia |
| Species: | T. caerulea |
| Binomial name | |
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Tenellia caerulea (Montagu, 1804) |
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| Synonyms | |
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clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida
Tenellia caerulea is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tergipedidae.
This species was described from Devon, England. It has been reported from the NE Atlantic from Norway south to Portugal and in the Mediterranean Sea. Records from Brazil and Florida probably represent a different species.
The typical size of this species is 10-15 mm and the maximum recorded length is 26 mm.
Found from the intertidal zone to 270 m.Trinchesia caerulea feeds on hydroids of the genus Sertularella.
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