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]

• Babakina Roller, 1973
• Calmella Eliot, 1910
• Chlamylla Bergh, 1886
• Cumanotus Odhner, 1907
• Flabellina Gray, 1833 - type genus
• Tularia Burn, 1966

Genera currently considered to be synonyms:

• Coryphella Gray, 1850: synonym of Flabellina
• Flabellinopsis MacFarland, 1966
• Nossis (Genus) Bergh, 1902
• Paracoryphella Miller, 1971

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

Further reading

• Sea Slug Forum Sea Slug Forum
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• "Flabellinidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.