Zelentia pustulataAlder, J., & A. Hancock. 1854. Notice of some new species of British Nudibranchiata. Annals & Magazine of Natural History, series 2, 14(80):102-105. is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.Bouchet, P.; Picton, B. (2017). Zelentia pustulata (Alder & Hancock, 1854). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2017-11-02.Korshunova T.; Fletcher K.; Martynov A. (2025). 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,
Distribution 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.Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Zelentia pustulata (Alder & Hancock, 1854). [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Also reported from the Atlantic coast of North America.Rudman, W.B., 2005 (May 23) Cuthona pustulata (Alder & Hancock, 1854). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. This species has been reported from Maine, the Barents Sea and the White Sea.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.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.
Ecology Zelentia pustulata feeds on the hydroid Halecium muricatum, family Haleciidae.
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