🦋 Family

Trinchesiidae

16 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Nudibranchia › Trinchesiidae

Catriona columbiana (O'Donoghue, 1922)

Catriona columbiana, the British Columbia aeolid, is a North American Pacific coastal aeolid nudibranch that feeds on specific hydroids.

Catriona aurantia (Alder & Hancock, 1842)

Catriona aurantia is a small aeolid nudibranch that feeds on the hydroid Tubularia larynx, found in shallow North Sea waters.

Diaphoreolis viridis (Forbes, 1840)

Diaphoreolis viridis is a small northeast Atlantic nudibranch that feeds on Sertularella hydroids, found at depths of 4 to 10 m.

Phestilla lugubris (Bergh, 1870)

Phestilla lugubris is an aeolid nudibranch sea slug widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific that preys on Porites coral.

Phestilla melanobrachia Bergh, 1874

Phestilla melanobrachia is a genetically uniform coral-eating aeolid sea slug from the Indo-West Pacific with two colour forms.

Trinchesia caerulea (Montagu, 1804)

Trinchesia caerulea is a small hydroid-feeding nudibranch found mainly in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean.

Trinchesia thelmae (Burn, 1964)

Trinchesia thelmae is a species of aeolid nudibranch sea slug described from Australia.

Trinchesia sibogae (Bergh, 1905)

Trinchesia sibogae is a large aeolid nudibranch sea slug widespread in tropical Indo-West Pacific waters.

Trinchesia albocrusta (MacFarland, 1966)

Trinchesia albocrusta (white-crusted aeolid) is a species of aeolid nudibranch sea slug found along the North American eastern Pacific coast.

Trinchesia catachroma (Burn, 1963)

Trinchesia catachroma is an aeolid nudibranch sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusc in Trinchesiidae, described from Australia.

Trinchesia ocellata Schmekel, 1966

Trinchesia ocellata is a Mediterranean species of aeolid nudibranch sea slug that lives on colonial hydroids.

Trinchesia speciosa (Macnae, 1954)

Trinchesia speciosa, the candy nudibranch, is a colorful, endemic South African aeolid nudibranch that feeds on hydroids.

Rubramoena rubescens (Picton & G.H.Brown, 1978)

Rubramoena rubescens is a small marine nudibranch found in the northeastern Atlantic that feeds on Halecium hydroids.

Zelentia fulgens (MacFarland, 1966)

Zelentia fulgens, the shiny aeolid, is a species of aeolid nudibranch sea slug found along the North American Eastern Pacific coast.

Diaphoreolis lagunae (O'Donoghue, 1926)

Diaphoreolis lagunae, the orange-face cuthona, is a North American Pacific coast aeolid nudibranch that feeds on a specific hydroid.

Diaphoreolis flavovulta (MacFarland, 1966)

Diaphoreolis flavovulta, the yellow-head aeolid, is a species of East Pacific marine nudibranch gastropod in the family Trinchesiidae.

Related Families

Chromodorididae 139 species Polyceridae 51 species Discodorididae 43 species Facelinidae 28 species Phyllidiidae 25 species Myrrhinidae 18 species Aeolidiidae 14 species Dotidae 12 species

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