Flabellinidae

Flabellinidae
Flabellina iodinea
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
Bergh, 1889[1]
Type genus
Flabellina
Genera and species

See text

Synonyms
  • Coryphellinae Bergh, 1889
  • Cumanotinae Odhner, 1907
  • Nossidae Odhner, 1968 (inv.)
  • Paracoryphellidae M. C. Miller, 1971[2]

Flabellinidae is a taxonomic family of brightly coloured sea slugs, specifically nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks.

This family has no subfamilies.

Genera and species

Genera within the family Flabellinidae include:[3]

Genera currently considered to be synonyms:

References

  1. Bergh R. (1889). In: Carus J. V. Prodromus Faunae Mediterraneae 2: 215.
  2. 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
  3. Bouchet, P. (2014). Flabellinidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=190 on 2014-10-24

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