Babakina caprinsulensis

Babakina caprinsulensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

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

Superfamily: Aeolidioidea
Family: Babakinidae
Genus: Babakina
Species: B. caprinsulensis
Binomial name
Babakina caprinsulensis
Miller, 1974

Babakina caprinsulensis is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch in the family Babakinidae, according to Gosliner T. M., Gonzáles-Duarte M. M. & Cervera J. L. (2007).,[1] but still in 2012 categorized in the family Flabellinidae according to the World Register of Marine Species [2]

It is found in shallow water along part of the coast of North Island, New Zealand.[3]

References

  1. Gosliner T. M., Gonzáles-Duarte M. M. & Cervera J. L. (2007). "Revision of the systematics of Babakina Roller, 1973 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) with the description of a new species and a phylogenetic analysis". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 151(4): 671-689. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00331.x.
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Babakina caprinsulensis. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=599256 on 2012-06-03
  3. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1


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