| Zelentia fulgens | |
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| Pillar Point, California, USA | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
| Family: | Trinchesiidae |
| Genus: | Zelentia |
| Species: | Z. fulgens |
| Binomial name | |
| Zelentia fulgens (MacFarland, 1966) [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Zelentia fulgens, the shiny aeolid, is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae. [2]
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]
Monterey Bay is a bay of the Pacific Ocean located on the coast of the U.S. state of California, south of the San Francisco Bay Area and its major city at the south of the bay, San Jose. San Francisco itself is further north along the coast, by about 75 miles, accessible via Highway 1 and Highway 280.
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Frank Mace MacFarland (1869–1951) was an American malacologist associated with Stanford University in California. Born in Centralia, Illinois, MacFarland attended DePauw University, Stanford University and the University of Wurzburg. On August 27, 1902, MacFarland married Olive Knowles Hornbrook. Mrs. MacFarland was a skilled technician and artist whose delicate watercolor paintings illustrated many of his scientific publications.
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