Flabellina exoptata
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| Flabellina exoptata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Flabellinoidea |
| Family: | Flabellinidae |
| Genus: | Flabellina |
| Species: | F. exoptata |
| Binomial name | |
| Flabellina exoptata Gosliner & Willan, 1991[1] | |
Flabellina exoptata, which can be translated as the much-desired flabellina or desirable flabellina, is a species of colourful sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.[2]
Distribution
This species was described from Madang, Papua New Guinea.[1] Flabellina exoptata is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific.[2]
Description
Flabellina exoptata is typically about 30 millimetres (1.2 in) in length when mature[1] but can reach 48 millimetres (1.9 in).[2]
Flabellina exoptata
References
- 1 2 3 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.
- 1 2 3 Rudman, W.B., 1999 (February 15) Flabellina exoptata Gosliner & Willan, 1991. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
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