Diaphoreolis scintillans is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Tenellia scintillans (M. C. Miller, 1977). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1793371 on 2026-03-02Korshunova 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 Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand.Rudman, W.B., 2007 (Sep 11) Cuthona scintillans from New Zealand. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
References
Gosliner T.M. (1981) A new species of tergipedid nudibranch from the coast of California. Journal of Molluscan Studies 47: 200-205 Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
External links Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone