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Pomegranate Aeolid
Cuthonella punicea
Cuthonella punicea is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cuthonellidae.
From the article Cuthonella punicea on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
This species was described from British Columbia, Canada, Pacific Ocean. It has been suggested that this species is synonymous with the Atlantic Ocean species Tenellia pustulata but this seems unlikely given the differences in colour, diet and anatomy. Only the 16S and H3 gene were sequenced and these are known to be identical in some other species pairs.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
What it does
Cuthonella punicea feeds on a large purple athecate hydroid which is thought to be an undescribed species of Corymorpha.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Ecology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1190535.