Cuthona
Genus of gastropods
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Cuthona is a genus of nudibranch in the family Cuthonidae.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Aeolidacea |
| Family: | Cuthonidae |
| Genus: | Cuthona Alder & Hancock, 1855 |
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Ecology
Cuthona species feed on hydroids, and have uniseriate radulae with polydentate radular teeth.[2]
Taxonomic history
The type species of Cuthona is Cuthona nana, (Alder & Hancock, 1842). Some authorities consider the genera Catriona and Trinchesia to be synonymous with Cuthona. Most Cuthona species were transferred to other genera as a result of DNA phylogeny studies in 2016 and 2017.[3][4]
Since then, Cuthona continues to be caught in the crossfire of a controversy that affects most heavily the family Trinchesiidae and any taxa that have been closely associated with it in the past, of which Cuthona is. Two teams of academics with radically different views on taxonomic method and integrity continue to publish papers near simultaneously with each other, that insist drastic taxonomic adjustments in opposite directions. The most recent publication belongs to Korshunova et al, 2025.[5]
While The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) has cited Korshunova et al., 2025 across other taxonomic adjustments, in regards to Trinchesiidae and Cuthonidae there has yet to be adjustments.[1] As always, Wikipedia defers to the standards set in place by WoRMS, and the lists below will not update unless WoRMS does.
Species
Species in the genus Cuthona include:[1]
- Cuthona antarctica (Pfeffer, 1886)
- Cuthona barbadiana (Edmunds & Just, 1983)
- Cuthona behrensi (Hermosillo & Á. Valdés, 2007)
- Cuthona claviformis (Vicente, 1974)
- Cuthona correai (Ortea, Caballer & Moro, 2002)
- Cuthona crinita (Minichev, 1972)
- Cuthona destinyae (Hermosillo & Valdés, 2007)
- Cuthona diminutiva (Gosliner, 1980)
- Cuthona divae (Er. Marcus, 1961)
- Cuthona fidenciae (Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1999)
- Cuthona fructuosa (Bergh, 1892)
- Cuthona futairo (Baba, 1963)
- Cuthona georgiana (Pfeffer in Martens & Pfeffer, 1886)
- Cuthona giarannae (Valdés, Moran & Woods, 2012)
- Cuthona hamanni (Behrens, 1987)
- Cuthona henrici Eliot, 1916
- Cuthona hermitophila (Martynov, Sanamyan & Korshunova, 2015)
- Cuthona herrerai Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2002
- Cuthona iris Edmunds & Just, 1983
- Cuthona leopardina (Vayssière, 1888)
- Cuthona lizae Angulo-Campillo & Valdés, 2003
- Cuthona longi Behrens, 1985
- Cuthona methana (Valdés, Lundsten & N. G. Wilson, 2018)
- Cuthona mimar (Ortea & Moro, 2018)
- Cuthona nana (Alder & Hancock, 1842)
- Cuthona netsica (Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1960)
- Cuthona norvegica (Odhner, 1929)
- Cuthona odhneri Er. Marcus, 1959
- Cuthona pallida (Eliot, 1906) - Not to be confused with Tenellia pallida (Alder & Hancock, 1845) synonym of Tenellia adspersa(von Nordmann, 1845)
- Cuthona paucicirra Minichev, 1972
- Cuthona perca (Er. Marcus, 1958)
- Cuthona phoenix Gosliner, 1981
- Cuthona puellula (Baba, 1955)
- Cuthona pumilio (Bergh, 1871)
- Cuthona pusilla (Bergh, 1898)
- Cuthona riosi Hermosillo & Valdés, 2008
- Cuthona rolleri Gosliner & Behrens, 1988
- Cuthona thompsoni Garcia, Lopez-Gonzalez & Garcia-Gomez, 1991
- Cuthona tina (Er. Marcus, 1957)
- Cuthona valentini (Eliot, 1907)
- Cuthona veronicae (A. E. Verrill, 1880)
- Cuthona willani Cervera, Garcia-Gomez & Lopez-Gonzalez, 1992
- Species brought into synonymy
- Cuthona abronia (MacFarland, 1966): synonym of Abronica abronia
- Cuthona abyssicola (Bergh, 1884): synonym of Cuthonella abyssicola
- Cuthona acinosa (Risbec, 1928): synonym of Trinchesia acinosa - Uncertain taxon
- Cuthona akibai (Baba, 1984): synonym of Trinchesia akibai
- Cuthona albocrusta (MacFarland, 1966): synonym of Tenellia albocrusta
- Cuthona albopunctata (Schmekel, 1968): synonym of Tenellia albopunctata
- Cuthona alpha (Baba & Hamatani, 1963): synonym of Catriona alpha (Baba & Hamatani, 1963)
- Cuthona amoena (Alder & Hancock, 1845): synonym of Rubramoena amoena
- Cuthona anulata (Baba, 1949): synonym of Tenellia anulata
- Cuthona aurantia (Alder & Hancock, 1842):synonym of Catriona aurantia
- Cuthona berghi (Friele, 1902): synonym of Cuthonella abyssicola
- Cuthona beta (Baba & Abe, 1964): synonym of Tenellia beta
- Cuthona bractea (Burn, 1962): synonym of Tularia bractea
- Cuthona caerulea (Montagu, 1804): synonym of Trinchesia caerulea
- Cuthona cocoachroma Williams & Gosliner, 1979: synonym of Margina cocoachroma
- Cuthona columbiana (O'Donoghue, 1922): synonym of Tenellia columbiana
- Cuthona concinna (Alder & Hancock, 1843): synonym of Fiocuthona concinna
- Cuthona distans Odhner, 1922: synonym of Fiocuthona concinna (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
- Cuthona diversicolor Baba, 1975: synonym of Tenellia diversicolor
- Cuthona elenae (Martynov, 2000): synonym of Penistella elenae
- Cuthona elioti Odhner, 1944: synonym of Cuthonella elioti
- Cuthona emurai (Baba, 1937): synonym of Hermissenda emurai
- Cuthona ferruginea (Friele, 1902): synonym of Cuthonella abyssicola (Bergh 1884)
- Cuthona flavovulta (MacFarland, 1966): synonym of Diaphoreolis flavovulta
- Cuthona foliata (Forbes & Goodsir, 1839): synonym of Tenellia foliata
- Cuthona fulgens (MacFarland, 1966): synonym of Tenellia fulgens
- Cuthona genovae (O'Donoghue, 1929): synonym of Tenellia genovae
- Cuthona granosa (Schmekel, 1966): synonym of Tenellia granosa
- Cuthona gymnota (Couthouy, 1838): synonym of Tenellia gymnota
- Cuthona hiemalis Roginskaya, 1987: synonym of Nella hiemalis
- Cuthona ilonae (Schmekel, 1968): synonym of Tenellia ilonae
- Cuthona japonica Baba, 1937: synonym of Sakuraeolis japonica (Baba, 1937)
- Cuthona kanga (Edmunds, 1970): synonym of Tenellia kanga
- Cuthona kuiteri Rudman, 1981: synonym of Tenellia kuiterorum
- Cuthona lagunae (O'Donoghue, 1926): synonym of Diaphoreolis lagunae
- Cuthona luciae Valdés, Medrano & Bhave, 2016: synonym of Cuthona herrerai (Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2002)
- Cuthona macquariensis (Burn, 1973): synonym of Tenellia macquariensis
- Cuthona marisalbi Roginskaya, 1963: synonym of Fiocuthona concinna
- Cuthona millenae Hermosillo & Valdés, 2007: synonym of Tenellia millenae
- Cuthona miniostriata (Schmekel, 1968): synonym of Tenellia miniostriata
- Cuthona modesta (Eliot, 1907): synonym of Cuthonella modesta
- Cuthona ocellata (Schmekel, 1966): synonym of Tenellia ocellata
- Cuthona ornata Baba, 1937: synonym of Tenellia ornata
- Cuthona osyoro (Baba, 1940): synonym of Nella osyoro
- Cuthona peregrina (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Cratena peregrina
- Cuthona pinnifera (Baba, 1949): synonym of Catriona pinnifera
- Cuthona poritophages Rudman, 1979: synonym of Phestilla poritophages
- Cuthona punicea Millen, 1986: synonym of Cuthonella punicea
- Cuthona purpureoanulata (Baba, 1961): synonym of Abronica purpureoanulata
- Cuthona pustulata (Alder & Hancock, 1854): synonym of Tenellia pustulata
- Cuthona reflexa (M. C. Miller, 1977): synonym of Tenellia reflexa
- Cuthona rubescens Picton & Brown, 1978: synonym of Rubramoena rubescens
- Cuthona rubra (Edmunds, 1964): synonym of Selva rubra
- Cuthona scintillans (Miller, 1977): synonym of Tenellia scintillans
- Cuthona sibogae (Bergh, 1905): synonym of Phestilla sibogae
- Cuthona speciosa (Macnae, 1954): synonym of Tenellia speciosa
- Cuthona stimpsoni A. E. Verrill, 1879: synonym of Ziminella salmonacea (Couthouy, 1838)
- Cuthona suecica (Odhner, 1940): synonym of Xenocratena suecica
- Cuthona thelmae (Burn, 1964): synonym of Tenellia thelmae
- Cuthona virens (MacFarland, 1966): synonym of Tenellia virens
- Cuthona viridis (Forbes, 1840): synonym of Diaphoreolis viridis
- Cuthona yamasui Hamatani, 1993: synonym of Tenellia yamasui
- Cuthona zelandica Odhner, 1924: synonym of Tenellia zelandica
