Tenellia pinnifera

Tenellia pinnifera
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:	Fionidae
Genus:	Tenellia
Species:	T. pinnifera
Binomial name
	Tenellia pinnifera; (Baba, 1949)
Synonyms
	Cratena pinnifera Baba, 1949 ; Catriona pinnifera (Baba, 1949) ; Cuthona pinnifera (Baba, 1949) ;

Tenellia pinnifera is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.

Distribution[edit]

This species was described from Sagami Bay, Japan. It was subsequently reported from Kii Peninsula, Osaka Bay, Toyama Bay and Tsuruga Bay.^[2]

This Tenellia is a white animal with a single, broken, band of orange-yellow below the tip of the cerata.^[3]

^ Baba, K. (1949). Opisthobranchia of Sagami Bay collected by His Majesty The Emperor of Japan. 194 pp., 50 pls. Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo.
^ Baba, K. (1961). Three new species of the genus Catriona from Japan (Nudibranchia - Eolidacea). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 9(2):367-372, pls. 14-15.
^ Cuthona pinnifera Baba, 1961 at umiushi-zukan.com