Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Genus Flabellina Scientific name Flabellina islandica | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Flabellinoidea Species F. islandica Rank Family | |
Similar Dexiarchia, Aeolidida, Flabellina iodinea, Flabellina, Heterobranchia | ||
Flabellina islandica is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Flabellinidae.
History of the taxonomy
Flabellina islandica was originally described as Coryphella islandica by Nils Hjalmar Odhner in 1937.
M. C. Miller (1971) assigned this species to a new genus Paracoryphella within a new family Paracoryphellidae.
Gosliner & Kuzirian (1990) synonymized Paracoryphella with Flabellina.
References
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