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Zelentia pustulata

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Zelentia pustulata
The nudibranch Zelentia pustulata, Strangford Lough, Co Down, Northern Ireland.
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. pustulata
Binomial name
Zelentia pustulata
(Alder & Hancock, 1854)
Synonyms
  • Eolis pustulata Alder & Hancock, 1854
  • Cuthona pustulata (Alder & Hancock, 1854)

Zelentia pustulata[1] is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.[2]

Distribution

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This species was described from Cullercoats, North Sea, England. It has been reported from the NE Atlantic from Orkney south to Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel.[3] Also reported from the Atlantic coast of North America.[4] This species has been reported from Maine, the Barents Sea and the White Sea.[5][6]

Ecology

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Zelentia pustulata feeds on the hydroid Halecium muricatum, family Haleciidae.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Alder, J., & A. Hancock. 1854. Notice of some new species of British Nudibranchiata. Annals & Magazine of Natural History, series 2, 14(80):102-105.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P.; Picton, B. (2017). Zelentia pustulata (Alder & Hancock, 1854). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2017-11-02.
  3. ^ a b Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Zelentia pustulata (Alder & Hancock, 1854). [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
  4. ^ Rudman, W.B., 2005 (May 23) Cuthona pustulata (Alder & Hancock, 1854). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  5. ^ Cella, K; Carmona Barnosi, L.; Ekimova, I; Chichvarkhin, A; Schepetov, D; Gosliner, T. M. (2016). A radical solution: The phylogeny of the nudibranch family Fionidae. PLoS ONE. 11(12): e0167800.
  6. ^ Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Picton, B. (2017). Ontogeny as an important part of integrative taxonomy in tergipedid aeolidaceans (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with a description of a new genus and species from the Barents Sea. Zootaxa. 4324(1): 1.