''Flabellina confusa'' is a
species
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of
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 ...
, an aeolid
nudibranch, a
marine
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
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in the family
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 ...
.
[Gofas, S. (2015)]
''Flabellina confusa'' Gonzalez-Duarte, Cervera & Poddubetskaia, 2008.
In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-26 It is now known to be a synonym of ''
Calmella gaditana
''Calmella gaditana'' is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Flabellinidae.Picton, B. (2017)''Calmella gaditana'' (Cervera, García-Gomez & García, 1987).In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed on 2018 ...
''.
[Furfaro, G.; Salvi, D.; Mancini, E.; Mariottini, P. (2018)]
A multilocus view on Mediterranean aeolid nudibranchs (Mollusca): Systematics and cryptic diversity of Flabellinidae and Piseinotecidae.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 118: 13-22.
Distribution
This species was described from the
Bay of Arcachon, France, Atlantic Ocean.
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References
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Flabellinidae
Gastropods described in 2008