genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
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sea slug
Sea slug is a common name for some marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are sea snails (marine gastropod mollusks) that over evolutionary t ...
family
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Flabellinidae
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:Bouchet, P. (2011)Flabell ...
. The only described species is ''Occidenthella athadona'', a combination named in 2017. It was originally described as ''Coryphella athadona'' in 1875. The genus name ''Occidenthella'', from ''occidens'', meaning "west" in
Latin
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, refers to its distribution in the Western Pacific Ocean.
In the 2017 publication, it was placed in the reinstated family Coryphellidae.