Flabellina engeli

Flabellina engeli
The nudibranch Flabellina engeli lucianae, Cabo Frio, Brazil.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida

Superfamily: Flabellinoidea
Family: Flabellinidae
Genus: Flabellina
Species: F. engeli
Binomial name
Flabellina engeli
Marcus, Ev. & Marcus, Er. (1968)[1]

Flabellina engeli is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Flabellinidae. [2]

Distribution

This species was described from Curaçao. It has been reported from Tobago and Florida.[3] A subspecies has been described from colder water in Brazil as Flabellina engeli lucianae.[4]

References

  1. Marcus, Ev. & Marcus, Er. (1968) Flabellina engeli, a new nudibranch from Curaçao. Beaufortia, Zoological Museum Univ. Amsterdam, 15: 139-142
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Flabellina engeli Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1968. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-26
  3. Rudman, W.B., 2001 (October 8) Flabellina engeli Marcus & Marcus, 1968. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  4. DaCosta, Simone, Carlo M. Cunha, Luiz R. L. Simone, & Michael Schrödl. 2007. Computer-based 3-dimensional reconstruction of major organ systems of a new aeolid nudibranch subspecies, Flabellina engeli lucianae, from Brazil (Gastropoda : Opisthobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(4):339- 353.
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