Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Fionidae Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Fionoidea Genus Tenellia | |
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Similar Tenellia foliata, Cuthona divae, Cuthona nana, Tenellia caerulea, Tergipedidae | ||
Tenellia pustulata is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.
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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. Also reported from the Atlantic coast of North America. This species has been reported from Maine, the Barents Sea and the White Sea but DNA sequencing suggests that this is a species complex.
Ecology
Tenellia pustulata feeds on the hydroid Halecium muricatum, family Haleciidae.
References
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