Coryphellina exoptata
Coryphellina exoptata
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:
Coryphellina
Species:
C. exoptata
Binomial name
Coryphellina exoptata
Gosliner & Willan, 1991[1]

Coryphellina exoptata, which can be translated as the much-desired flabellina or desirable flabellina, is a species of colourful sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Madang, Papua New Guinea.[1] Coryphellina exoptata is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific.[2]

Description

Coryphellina exoptata is typically about 30 millimetres (1.2 in) in length when mature[1] but can reach 48 millimetres (1.9 in).[2]

Coryphellina exoptata

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gosliner, T. M., & Richard C. Willan. 1991. Review of the Flabellinidae (Nudibranchia: Aeolidacea) from the tropical Indo-Pacific, with the descriptions of five new species. Veliger 34(2):97-133.
  2. 1 2 3 Rudman, W.B., 1999 (February 15) Flabellina exoptata Gosliner & Willan, 1991. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.


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