Zelentia fulgens
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| Pillar Point, California, USA | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | Z. fulgens
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| Zelentia fulgens (MacFarland, 1966)[1]
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Zelentia fulgens common name shiny aeolid, is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.[2]
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
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Rosenberg, G. (2014). Cuthona fulgens (MacFarland, 1966). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-01-28
- ^ McDonald, G. (2015). Intertidal Invertebrates of the Monterey Bay Area, California