Flabellina delicata

Flabellina delicata
The nudibranch Flabellina delicata, Tulamben, Bali.
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. delicata
Binomial name
Flabellina delicata
Gosliner & Willan, 1991[1]

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

Distribution

This species was described from Madang, Papua New Guinea with additional material from Aliwal Shoals, Natal, South Africa.[1] It has also been reported from Indonesia and Japan and is probably a widespread species in the Indo-Pacific region.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Gosliner, T. M., & Richard C. Willan. 1991. Review of the Flabellinidae (Nudibranchia: Aeolidacea) from the tropical Indo-Pacific, with the descriptions of five new species. Veliger 34(2):97-133. page 124
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Flabellina delicata Gosliner & Willan, 1991. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-26
  3. Rudman, W.B., 2003 (March 16) Flabellina delicata Gosliner & Willan, 1991. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
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