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Cuthonella abyssicola

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ61684360 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cuthonella abyssicola is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cuthonellidae. Within it are two subspecies: Cuthonella abyssicola abyissicola and Cuthonella abyssicola kryos.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Cuthonella abyssicola” as species of mollusc. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 31-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Cuthonella, abyssicola and species can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as species of mollusc. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q61684360. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Cuthonella abyssicola primary sources, Cuthonella abyssicola archive and Cuthonella research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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  3. Which observation, specimen, dataset or publication supports the account?
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This entry incorporates text from “Cuthonella abyssicola” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.