Genus Zelentia gen. nov. Type species: Eolis pustulata Alder & Hancock, 1854 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:8EC46FCB-EA00-428B-AF08-3DA5C3808DF9 Diagnosis. 3-4 anterior rows of cerata, oral tentacles present, no anterior foot corners, jaws with single row of simple denticles, radular teeth narrow with low cusp, penis with curved stylet. Etymology. After the short name Zelentsy of the subpolar settlement at the Barents Sea Dalnie Zelentsy where two ontogenetically and molecularly distinct Zelentia species co-occur. Species included. Zelentia fulgens (MacFarland, 1966) comb. nov., Zelentia ninel sp. nov. (Fig. 1), Zelentia pustulata (Alder & Hancock, 1854) comb. nov. (Fig. 2). Remarks. See under Discussion. Comparison of the diagnostic characters of the genus Zelentia gen. nov. with other genera of the family Trinchesiidae is presented in the Table 3.

Published as part of Picton, Bernard, 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 in Zootaxa 4324 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4324.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/996955