Selection: Trinchesia diversicolor

Trinchesia diversicolor Baba, 1975

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Trinchesia diversicolor has a characteristic colour pattern: The body is translucent colourless with many yellow and blue patches. The head is translucent orange, the oral tentacles and smooth rhinophores a are translucent orange, which becomes more intense towards the tip. The cerata are translucent clear with small scattered white specks. Towards the tip there is an orange band.
This specimen was identified by Dr. Richard C. Willan at Nudi Pixel
Originally posted at these websites as Cuthona diversicolor (Baba, 1975) [Trinchesia] I follow:
Miller, M.C. 2005. An appraisal of the identity of the New Zealand species of the aeolid nudibranch family Tergipedidae (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia). Journal of Natural History 38: 1183-1192.
let me quote from the last sentence of the abstract:
"As a result the genus Cuthona Alder & Hancock, 1855 is restricted to one species, C. nana (Alder & Hancock, 1842), and the genus Trinchesia von Ihering, 1879 is re-introduced for the rest of the species previously included in Cuthona."
More informations on Trinchesia diversicolor as Cuthona diversicolor are at Bill Rudman's Sea-Slug Forum!