Zelentia fulgens

Zelentia fulgens common name shiny aeolid, is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.[2]

Zelentia fulgens
Pillar Point, California, USA
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia

clade Aeolidida
Superfamily:
Fionoidea
Family:
Trinchesiidae
Genus:
Zelentia
Species:
Z. fulgens
Binomial name
Zelentia fulgens
Synonyms
  • Cratena fulgens MacFarland, 1966
  • Cuthona fulgens (MacFarland, 1966)

Distribution

This species was described from Point Pinos, Monterey Bay, California, United States.[1] It has been recorded along the Eastern Pacific coastline of North America from Kayostia Beach, Clallam County, Washington state to Shell Beach, San Luis Obispo, California.[3]

References
  1. MacFarland, F. M. (1966). Studies of opisthobranchiate mollusks of the Pacific coast of North America. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 6:1-546, pls. 1-72. pages 337-340.
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2014). Cuthona fulgens (MacFarland, 1966). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-01-28
  3. McDonald, G. (2015). Intertidal Invertebrates of the Monterey Bay Area, California
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