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Flabellina exoptata

Flabellina exoptata
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Flabellina 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: 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).


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