Flabellina ischitana
| Flabellina ischitana | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Flabellinoidea |
| Family: | Flabellinidae |
| Genus: | Flabellina |
| Species: | F. ischitana |
| Binomial name | |
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Flabellina ischitana Hirano & Thompson, 1990 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Coryphella pedata (Montagu, 1815) |
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clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida
Coryphella pedata (Montagu, 1815)
Flabellina ischitana is a species of sea slug, an aolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Flabellinidae.
The genus name Flabellina is a diminutive of Latin Flabellum, meaning fan, while the genus name ischitana mean from Ischia, the island from where this nudibranch was first named.
This species is found in Mediterranean waters around Spain in such locations as Costa Brava, and in the Tyrrhenian Sea, especially around Ischia (hence the species Latin name).
Flabellina ischitana usually can be found in shallow water, but it can also reach depths of 35 m.
This species can grow to a length of approximately 4 cm and is mostly purple-violet in colour. It has opaque white-tipped certa, rhinophores, and oral tentacles. The rhinophores are annulate. Due to the somewhat transparent skin of the ceras, the branches of the digestive gland are visible, and appear as red-orange.
Flabellina ischitana is often confused with Flabellina affinis, but can be distinguished as follows:
Flabellina ischitana is also similar to Flabellina pedata, but they can be distinguished on the basis of their rhinophores:
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