Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Ringipleura > Superorder Nudipleura > Order Nudibranchia > Suborder Cladobranchia > Superfamily Aeolidioidea > Family Flabellinidae

Flabellina McMurtrie, 1831

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Flabellina affinis (Gmelin, 1791)
Flabellina bulbosa Ortea & Espinosa, 1998
Flabellina dushia (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1963)

Literature

original description	McMurtrie, H. (1831). The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization by the Baron Cuvier. The Crustacea, Arachnides and Insecta by P. A. Latreille. Translated from the French, with notes and additions. Vol. 2. G. 1C. 1H. Carvill, New York, xv 1 475 pp 1 10 pls.
basis of record	Burn R. (2018). Flabellina McMurtrie, 1831: The earliest valid Latinization?. The Nautilus. 132(1): 33-34.
additional source	Griffith E. & Pidgeon E. (1833-1834). The Mollusca and Radiata. Vol. 12, In: E. Griffith, [1824]−1835, The Animal Kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, [...]. London: Whittaker and Co., viii + 601 pp., 61 pls. [Date of publication after Evenhuis (2009): pp. 1-384, Mollusca pls. 1−39, Zoophytes pls 1-20 - 1833; pp. viii + 385-601, Mollusca corrected pls. 28, 36, 37*, pls. 40-41 - 1834].
additional source	Voigt F.S. (1834) In: Cuvier G. (ed.). (1834). Das Thierreich, geordnet nach seiner Organisation, Als Grundlage der Naturgeschichte der Thiere und Einleitung in die vergleichende Anatomie. Vom Baron von Cuvier. vol. 3, die Mollusken. Leipzig, F. A. Brodhaus. 621 pp.
status source	ICZN. (1966). Opinion 781. Flabellina Voigt, 1834 (Gastropoda): Placed on the Offcial List of Generic Names. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 23 (2-3): 104-105.
status source	Petit, R. E. & Coan., E. V. 2008. The molluscan taxa made available in the Griffith & Pidgeon (1833-1834) edition of Cuvier, with notes on the editions of Cuvier and on Wood's Index Testaceologicus. Malacologia 50: 219-264.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Flabellina McMurtrie, 1831. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138019