Tochuina is a genus of sea slugs, tritonid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tritoniidae.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Tritoniidae |
| Genus: | Tochuina Odhner, 1963[1] |
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Taxonomy
editThe species composition of Tochuina was clarified in 2020 as a result of an integrative taxonomic study of the family Tritoniidae.[3] Tochuina differs from Tritonia in having a non-bilobed oral veil and the clade is supported by DNA phylogeny. An interesting finding was that the tritoniid genus Tochuina not only shows an intriguing morphological similarity to Doridoxa and Heterodoris but clusters close to these genera, which themselves cluster with the family Arminidae, in a molecular tree within the Dendronotoidea.[3]
Species
editSpecies within the genus Tochuina include:
- Tochuina gigantea (Bergh, 1904)
- Tochuina nigritigris (Valdés, Lundsten & Wilson, 2018)
- Tochuina nigromaculata (Roginskaya, 1984)
Species placed in synonymy:
- Tochuina tetraquetra (Pallas, 1788) accepted as Tritonia tetraquetra (Pallas, 1788)
References
edit- ^ Odhner N. H. (1963). On the taxonomy of the family Tritoniidae. The Veliger. 6(1): 48-52.
- ^ MolluscaBase (2018). Tochuina Odhner, 1963. Accessed on 2021-01-06.
- ^ a b Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A. (2020). Consolidated data on the phylogeny and evolution of the family Tritoniidae (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) contribute to genera reassessment and clarify the taxonomic status of the neuroscience models Tritonia and Tochuina. PLOS ONE. 15(11): e0242103.