Flabellina

This article is about the sea slug. For Amoebozoa, see Flabellinea.
Flabellina
Flabellina funeka
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida

Superfamily: Flabellinoidea
Family: Flabellinidae
Genus: Flabellina
Gray [in Griffith & Pidgeon], 1833
Type species
Doris affinis Gmelin, 1791[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Coryphellina O'Donoghue, 1929
  • Paracoryphella M. C. Miller, 1971[3]

Flabellina is a genus of sea slugs, specifically aeolid nudibranchs. These animals are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Flabellinidae.[2]

Species

Species so far described in this genus include:[2]

Synonymized species 

References

  1. Griffith, E & E. Pidgeon. 1833-1834. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, member of the Institute of France, etc..., with supplementary additions to each order. Volume the twelfith. The Mollusca and Radiata. Whittaker, London. viii + 601 pp., pl 1-41 [Mollusca], pls 1-20 [Radiata]., available online at http://ia600300.us.archive.org/5/items/molluscaradiata00cuvi/molluscaradiata00cuvi.pdf page(s): 40
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Caballer, M.; Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G.; Gofas, S. (2014). Flabellina Gray, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138019 on 2014-10-24
  3. Miller M. C. (1971). "Aeolid nudibranchs (Gastropoda:Opisthobranchia) of the families Flabellinidae and Eubranchidae from New Zealand waters". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 50(4): 311-337. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1971.tb00766.x
  4. Gosliner T. M. & Willan R. C. (1991). "Review of the Flabellinidae (Nudibranchia: Aeolidacea) from the tropical Indo-Pacific, with the descriptions of five new species". The Veliger 34(2): 97-133. page 109.
  5. Millen S. & Hermosillo A. (2007) The genus Flabellina Voight, 1834 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) from Bahia de Banderas (Pacific coast of Mexico) with ecological observations, the description of a new species, and the redescription of Flabellina cynara. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences ser.4, 58(26): 543-559. page(s): 552

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