# Zelentia

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{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
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| image = Cuthona-pustulata.jpg
| image_caption = The nudibranch ''Zelentia pustulata'', Strangford Lough, Co Down, Northern Ireland.
| taxon = Zelentia
| authority = [Korshunova](/source/Tatiana_Korshunova_(malacologist)), [Martynov](/source/Alexander_V._Martynov) & [Picton](/source/Bernard_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>
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'''''Zelentia''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [sea slug](/source/sea_slug)s, aeolid [nudibranch](/source/nudibranch)s, [marine](/source/marine_(ocean)) [gastropod](/source/gastropod) [mollusc](/source/mollusc)s in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Trinchesiidae](/source/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](/source/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 [hydroid](/source/hydroid_(zoology))s.

== 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](/source/Zelentia_amoris)'' <small>Korshunova & Martynov, 2022</small>
* ''[Zelentia fulgens](/source/Zelentia_fulgens)'' <small>(MacFarland, 1966)</small>
* ''[Zelentia nepunicea](/source/Zelentia_nepunicea)'' <small>Korshunova, Fletcher, Lundin, Picton & Martynov, 2018</small>
* ''[Zelentia ninel](/source/Zelentia_ninel)'' <small>Korshunova, Martynov & Picton, 2017</small>
* ''[Zelentia pustulata](/source/Zelentia_pustulata)'' <small>(Alder & Hancock, 1854)</small>
* ''[Zelentia roginskae](/source/Zelentia_roginskae)'' <small>Korshunova, Fletcher, Lundin, Picton & Martynov, 2018</small>
* ''[Zelentia willowsi](/source/Zelentia_willowsi)'' <small>Korshunova, Fletcher, Lundin, Picton & Martynov, 2018</small>

==References==
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==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

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