Trinchesia kanga is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Tenellia kanga (Edmunds, 1970). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1765136 on 2026-03-02Korshunova T.; Fletcher K.; Martynov A. (2025). The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 204, Issue 4, August 2025, zlaf057,
Distribution This species was described from the President's Jetty, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It has been reported from Réunion Island.Bidgrain, P., (2016). Cuthona kanga In: Sea slugs from South West Indian Ocean.
Description The typical adult size of this species is 5 mm. It has been reported to grow to 12 mm.
References
Gosliner, T. 1987. Nudibranchs of southern Africa: A guide to Opisthobranch molluscs of southern Africa Sea. Challengers, Monterey.
External links McDonald, G. R. (2009). Nudibranch Systematic Index, second edition. University of California Santa Cruz: Institute of Marine Sciences