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Zelentia fulgens

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Zelentia fulgens
Pillar Point, California, USA
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Z. fulgens
Binomial name
Zelentia fulgens
Synonyms
  • Cratena fulgens MacFarland, 1966
  • Cuthona fulgens (MacFarland, 1966)

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

  1. ^ 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.
  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