{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Cuthona-pustulata.jpg | image_caption = The nudibranch ''Zelentia pustulata'', Strangford Lough, Co Down, Northern Ireland. | taxon = Zelentia | authority = Korshunova, Martynov & Picton, 2017<ref name=orig>Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Picton, B. (2017). [https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4324.1.1 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.</ref> | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = }}
'''''Zelentia''''' is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trinchesiidae.<ref name=orig /><ref name="WoRMS">MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Zelentia Korshunova, Martynov & Picton, 2017. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1036928 on 2022-08-04</ref>In 2024, the genus was synonymized with ''Tenellia'' and all former ''Zelentia'' species followed,<ref>https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18517 Kim, A. Y., Donohoo, S. A. & Gosliner, T. M. (2024). Stirring up the muck: the systematics of soft-sediment Fionidae (Nudibranchia: Aeolidina) from the tropical Indo-Pacific. PeerJ.</ref> only for it to be reinstated the following year in 2025.<ref name="Korshunova">Korshunova T.; Fletcher K.; Martynov A. (2025). [https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf057 ''The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case''] Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 204, Issue 4, August 2025, zlaf057, </ref>
''Zelentia'' species feed on hydroids.
== Species == According to Korshunova et al. (2025), species within the genus ''Zelentia'' include:<ref>Bouchet, P.; Picton, B. (2017). [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1036928 ''Zelentia'' Korshunova, Martynov & Picton, 2017.] In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2017-11-02.</ref><ref name= Korshunova/> * ''Zelentia amoris'' <small>Korshunova & Martynov, 2022</small> * ''Zelentia fulgens'' <small>(MacFarland, 1966)</small> * ''Zelentia nepunicea'' <small>Korshunova, Fletcher, Lundin, Picton & Martynov, 2018</small> * ''Zelentia ninel'' <small>Korshunova, Martynov & Picton, 2017</small> * ''Zelentia pustulata'' <small>(Alder & Hancock, 1854)</small> * ''Zelentia roginskae'' <small>Korshunova, Fletcher, Lundin, Picton & Martynov, 2018</small> * ''Zelentia willowsi'' <small>Korshunova, Fletcher, Lundin, Picton & Martynov, 2018</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4324.1.1 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]
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Category:Trinchesiidae Category:Gastropod genera Category:Taxa named by Tatiana Korshunova Category:Taxa named by Alexander V. Martynov Category:Taxa named by Bernard Picton