Trinchesia
Trinchesia is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trinchesiidae. All species were transferred to Tenellia as a result of a DNA phylogeny study in 2016. The genus was dismembered and broken into several smaller genera in 2017 with further DNA evidence and a re-interpretation of genus and family characteristics.
Trinchesia species feed on hydroids.Species
Species in the genus Trinchesia included:
- Trinchesia acinosa
- Trinchesia akibai
- Trinchesia albocrusta
- Trinchesia albopunctata Schmekel, 1968
- Trinchesia alpha
- Trinchesia anulata
- Trinchesia beta
- Trinchesia caerulea - type species of Trinchesia
- Trinchesia catachroma
- Trinchesia colmani
- Trinchesia divanica Martynov, 2002
- Trinchesia foliata
- Trinchesia genovae
- Trinchesia granosa Schmekel, 1966
- Trinchesia hiranorum Martynov, Sanamyan & Korshunova, 2015
- Trinchesia ilonae Schmekel, 1968
- Trinchesia kanga Edmunds, 1970
- Trinchesia kuiteri
- Trinchesia lenkae Martynov, 2002
- Trinchesia macquariensis Burn, 1973
- Trinchesia midori Martynov, Sanamyan & Korshunova, 2015
- Trinchesia miniostriata Schmekel, 1968
- Trinchesia ocellata Schmekel, 1966
- Trinchesia ornata
- Trinchesia pupillae
- Trinchesia reflexa
- Trinchesia scintillans
- Trinchesia sibogae
- Trinchesia sororum Burn, 1964
- Trinchesia speciosa
- Trinchesia taita Edmunds, 1970
- Trinchesia thelmae
- Trinchesia virens
- Trinchesia viridiana
- Trinchesia yamasui
- Trinchesia zelandica
Species names currently considered to be synonyms:
- Trinchesia pustulata synonym of Zelentia pustulata
- Trinchesia viridis synonym of Diaphoreolis viridis
