Flabellina exoptata | |
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Flabellina exoptata | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Flabellinoidea |
Family: | Flabellinidae |
Genus: | Flabellina |
Species: | F. exoptata |
Binomial name | |
Flabellina exoptata Gosliner & Willan, 1991 |
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida
Flabellina 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.
This species was described from Madang, Papua New Guinea.Flabellina exoptata is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific.
Flabellina exoptata is typically about 30 millimetres (1.2 in) in length when mature but can reach 48 millimetres (1.9 in).