Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Ringipleura > Superorder Nudipleura > Order Nudibranchia > Suborder Cladobranchia > Superfamily Fionoidea > Family Trinchesiidae

Tenellia A. Costa, 1866

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Diaphoreolis*	Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923	synonym
*Trinchesia*	Ihering, 1879	synonym
*Zelentia*	Korshunova, Martynov & Picton, 2017	synonym

Children

Tenellia adspersa (von Nordmann, 1845)
Tenellia albopunctata (Schmekel, 1968)
Tenellia aurantia (Alder & Hancock, 1842)
Tenellia caerulea (Montagu, 1804)
Tenellia cuanensis (Korshunova, Picton, Furfaro, Mariottini, Pontes, Prkić, Fletcher, Malmberg, Lundin & Martynov, 2019)
Tenellia diljuvia (Korshunova, Picton, Furfaro, Mariottini, Pontes, Prkić, Fletcher, Malmberg, Lundin & Martynov, 2019)
Tenellia foliata (Forbes & Goodsir, 1839)
Tenellia genovae (O'Donoghue, 1926)
Tenellia granosa (Schmekel, 1966)
Tenellia gymnota (Couthouy, 1838)
Tenellia ilonae (Schmekel, 1968)
Tenellia maua (Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1960)
Tenellia miniostriata (Schmekel, 1968)
Tenellia morrowae (Korshunova, Picton, Furfaro, Mariottini, Pontes, Prkić, Fletcher, Malmberg, Lundin & Martynov, 2019)
Tenellia ocellata (Schmekel, 1966)
Tenellia pustulata (Alder & Hancock, 1854)
Tenellia stipata (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
Tenellia viridis (Forbes, 1840)

Literature

original description	Costa A. (1866-1869). Saggio sui molluschi eolididei del Golfo di Napoli. Annuario del Museo Zoologico della Reale Università di Napoli, (1863) 3: 59-90, pl. 1-3 [1866]; (1864) 4: 26-37, pl. 1-2 [1867]; (1865) 5: 46-53, pl. 2 [1869]

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tenellia A. Costa, 1866. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138545