Flabellina bilas

Flabellina bilas
Flabellina bilas
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
Species: F. bilas
Binomial name
Flabellina bilas
Gosliner & Willan, 1991[1]

Flabellina bilas is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.[2]

Description

Flabellina bilas has a body length of 18-35 mm (1.8-3.5 cm).[3]

Distribution

This species is widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific and commonly seen on reefs.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2015). Flabellina bilas (Gosliner & Willan, 1991). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-25
  3. ↑ Marine Gastropods Retrieved July 5, 2012
  4. ↑ Rudman, W.B., 1999 (July 1) Flabellina bilas (Gosliner & Willan, 1991). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
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