''Babakina'' is a
genus
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of
sea slug
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s, aeolid
nudibranch
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s,
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gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the superfamily
Flabellinoidea
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.
[Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). Babakina Roller, 1973. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181255 on 2012-06-03] The genus is named after the Japanese malacologist
Kikutaro Baba
was a Japanese malacologist. He was the leading researcher on sea slugs and bubble snails, opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in Japan.
Biography
* 1932–1941 Kyushu University
* 1948–1949 Osaka Kyoiku University
* 1976 – Order of the Risi ...
(1905-2001).
Taxonomy
''Babakina'' is in the subfamily Babakininae within the family
Flabellinidae
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in the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, (2005).
''Babakina'' is the type genus of the subfamily Babakininae.
Gosliner et al. (2007)
have elevated Babakinidae to the family level with the only genus ''Babakina''.
Species
There are four species within the genus ''Babakina'':
* ''
Babakina anadoni''
(Ortea, 1979)
* ''
Babakina caprinsulensis''
(Miller, 1974)
* ''
Babakina festiva''
(Roller, 1972) - type species
* ''
Babakina indopacifica''
Gosliner, Gonzáles-Duarte & Cervera, 2007[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
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'' 151(4): 671–689. .
In 2022 ''Babakina anadoni'' was found off the coast of the
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. Previously this rare 2cm long species was only known from a handful of specimins found along the west coast of Spain and further south in the Atlantic.
References
Flabellinidae
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