Flabellina is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of sea slug

Slug

Slug is a common name that is normally applied to any gastropod mollusc that lacks a shell, has a very reduced shell, or has a small internal shell...

s, specifically aeolid

Aeolidioidea

Aeolidioidea is a superfamily of small sea slugs, the aeolid nudibranchs. They are gastropod mollusks.-2005 taxonomy :The superfamily Aeolidioidea consists of the following four families :* Aeolidiidae Gray, 1827* Facelinidae Bergh, 1889* Glaucidae Gray, 1827* Piseinotecidae Edmunds, 1970Synonyms...

 nudibranch

Nudibranch

A nudibranch is a member of what is now a taxonomic clade, and what was previously a suborder, of soft-bodied, marine gastropod mollusks which shed their shell after their larval stage. They are noted for their often extraordinary colors and striking forms...

s. These animals are marine

Marine (ocean)

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 gastropod molluscs in the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Flabellinidae

Flabellinidae

Flabellinidae is a taxonomic family of brightly-colored sea slugs, specifically nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks.This family has no subfamilies.-Genera and species:Genera and species within the family Flabellinidae include:...

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Gosliner & Kuzirian (1990) synonymized Paracoryphella with Flabellina.

Species

Species so far described in this genus include:

• Flabellina affinis
  Flabellina affinis
  Flabellina affinis is a species of sea slug, an aolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Flabellinidae.-Description:The species can grow to a length of 50 mm...
  
  (Gmelin, 1791)
• Flabellina alternata Ortea & Espinosa, 1998
• Flabellina amabilis Hirano & Kuzirian, 1991
• Flabellina arveloi Ortea & Espinosa, 1998
• Flabellina babai Schmekel, 1972
• Flabellina baetica Garcia-Gomez, 1984
• Flabellina bertschi Gosliner & Kuzirian, 1990
• Flabellina borealis (Odhner, 1922)
• Flabellina browni (Picton, 1980)
• Flabellina bulbosa Ortea & Espinosa, 1998
• Flabellina cerverai Fischer, van der Velde & Roubos, 2007
• Flabellina confusa Gonzalez-Duarte, Cervera & Poddubetskaia, 2008
• Flabellina cooperi (Cockerell, 1901)
• Flabellina cynara (Marcus & Marcus, 1967)
• Flabellina dana Millen & Hamann, 2006
• Flabellina delicata Gosliner & Willan, 1991
• Flabellina dushia (Marcus Ev. & Er., 1963)
• Flabellina engeli Ev. Marcus and Er. Marcus, 1968
• Flabellina evelinae Edmunds, 1989
• Flabellina exoptata
  Flabellina exoptata
  Flabellina exoptata is a species of colorful sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Flabellinidae....
  
  Gosliner & Willan, 1991
• Flabellina falklandica (Eliot, 1907)
• Flabellina fogata Millen & Hermosillo, 2007
• Flabellina goddardi Gosliner, 2010
• Flabellina gracilis (Alder and Hancock, 1844)
• Flabellina hamanni Gosliner, 1994
• Flabellina ilidioi Calado, Ortea & Caballer, 2005
• Flabellina insolita Garcia-Gomez & Cervera, 1989
• Flabellina iodinea (J.G. Cooper, 1863)
• Flabellina ischitana Hirano & Thompson, 1990
• Flabellina islandica
  Flabellina islandica
  Flabellina islandica is a species of sea slug, an aolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Flabellinidae.- History of the taxonomy :...
  
  (Odhner, 1937) ( synonyms: Coryphella islandica, Paracoryphella islandica)
• Flabellina japonica (Volodchenko, 1937)
• Flabellina lineata (Lovén, 1846)
• Flabellina llerae Ortea, 1989
• Flabellina macassarana Bergh, 1905
• Flabellina marcusorum Gosliner & Kuzirian, 1990
• Flabellina nobilis (A.E. Verrill, 1880)
• Flabellina pallida (A. E. Verrill, 1900)
• Flabellina parva (Hadfield, 1963)
• Flabellina pedata (Montagu, 1815)
• Flabellina pellucida (Alder and Hancock, 1843)
• Flabellina poenicia (Burn, 1957)
• Flabellina pricei (MacFarland, 1966)
• Flabellina riwo Gosliner & Willan, 1991
• Flabellina rubrolineata (O'Donoghue, 1929)
• Flabellina salmonacea
  Flabellina salmonacea
  Flabellina salmonacea, common name the salmon aeolis, is a species of sea slug, an aolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Flabellinidae.-Distribution:...
  
  (Couthouy, 1838)
• Flabellina sarsi (Friele, 1902)
• Flabellina telja Marcus & Marcus, 1967
• Flabellina trilineata (O'Donoghue, 1921)
• Flabellina trophina (Bergh, 1891)
• Flabellina vansyoci Gosliner, 1994
• Flabellina verrucosa (M. Sars, 1829)
• Flabellina verta (Ev. Marcus, 1970)

The following species were also described by the Catalogue of Life

Catalogue of Life

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 and in the book "Nudibranchs of Southern Africa" by Gosliner

• Flabellina capensis
  Flabellina capensis
  The white-edged nudibranch, Flabellina capensis, is a species of sea slug, specifically an aeolid nudibranch, a very colourful sea slug. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.-Distribution:...
  
  (Thiele, 1925)
• Flabellina funeka Gosliner and Griffiths, 1981
• Flabellina subrosacea (Eschscholtz, 1831)

Synonymized species :

• Flabellina newcombi Angas, 1864 : synonym of Facelina newcombi (Angas, 1864)
• Flabellina ornata Angas, 1864 : synonym of Austraeolis ornata (Angas, 1864)
• Flabellina stohleri Bertsch & Ferreira, 1974 : synonym of Flabellina telja Marcus & Marcus, 1967

External links

• Key to Flabellina in the North Atlantic