Flabellina

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]
  • Coryphella Gray, 1850
  • Coryphellina O'Donoghue, 1929
  • Himatella Bergh, 1890 (Invalid: junior homonym of Himatella Zittel, 1878 [Porifera]; Himatina is a replacement name)
  • Himatina Thiele, 1931
  • 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. ↑ Gmelin, Johann Friedrich. 1791. In: C. Linnaeus. Systema Naturae, per regna tria naturae, : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. ed. 13, 1(6):3103- 3107, 3147-3148.
  2. 1 2 3 Caballer, M.; Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G.; Gofas, S. (2014). Flabellina Gray, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species 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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