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Zelentia fulgens

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Zelentia fulgens
Pillar Point, California, USA
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Trinchesiidae
Genus: Zelentia
Species: Z. fulgens
Binomial name
Zelentia fulgens
(MacFarland, 1966)
Synonyms
  • Cratena fulgens MacFarland, 1966
  • Cuthona fulgens (MacFarland, 1966)

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

Distribution

This species was described from Point Pinos, Monterey Bay, California, United States. 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.

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
Taxon identifiers
Cuthona fulgens
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