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 > Genus Tenellia

Tenellia adspersa (von Nordmann, 1845)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tenellia*	A. Costa, 1866	accepted genus name
*Diaphoreolis*	Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923	synonym
*Trinchesia*	Ihering, 1879	synonym
*Zelentia*	Korshunova, Martynov & Picton, 2017	synonym

Species group names

*Embletonia grayi*	Kent, 1869	synonym
*Embletonia pallida*	Alder & Hancock, 1854	synonym
*Eolis armoricana*	Hesse, 1872	synonym
*Eolis ventilabrum*	Dalyell, 1853	synonym
*Tenellia mediterranea*	A. Costa, 1866	synonym
*Tenellia pallida*	(Alder & Hancock, 1845)	synonym
*Tergipes adspersus*	von Nordmann, 1845	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: brakvandstrådsnegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: brakwater-knotsslak sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

English: lagoon sea slug; miniature aeolis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Brackwasser Fadenschnecke; Brackwasser-Fadenschnecke; Lagunen-Fadenschnecke

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tenellia adspersa (von Nordmann, 1845). 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:141639