The genus Flabellina was established by
John Edward Gray in 1833 with the type species Flabellina affinis and characterised by the
cerata being arranged on peduncles and the
rhinophores being annulate. Many species were added by subsequent authors. In 1981 the genus Coryphella was merged under the older name Flabellina as despite a large range of morphological characters in the 64 species of Flabellinidae and
Coryphellidae known at that time, no clear distinction could be found to separate the species into the two genera.[4] In 2017 an integrative study of the 71 species then considered to be included in Flabellina redistributed the species into seven families and 26 genera.[5]
^Gmelin, Johann Friedrich. 1791. In: C. Linnaeus. Systema Naturae, per regna tria naturae, : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. ed. 13, 1(6):3103- 3107, 3147-3148.
^Gosliner T.M., Griffiths R.J. (1981) Description and revision of some South African aeolidacean Nudibranchia (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Annals of the South African Museum 84: 105–150.
^Gosliner T. M. & Willan R. C. (1991). "Review of the Flabellinidae (Nudibranchia: Aeolidacea) from the tropical Indo-Pacific, with the descriptions of five new species". The Veliger34(2):
97-133.
page 109.
Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA).
ISBN0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
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 page(s): 222
The genus Flabellina was established by
John Edward Gray in 1833 with the type species Flabellina affinis and characterised by the
cerata being arranged on peduncles and the
rhinophores being annulate. Many species were added by subsequent authors. In 1981 the genus Coryphella was merged under the older name Flabellina as despite a large range of morphological characters in the 64 species of Flabellinidae and
Coryphellidae known at that time, no clear distinction could be found to separate the species into the two genera.[4] In 2017 an integrative study of the 71 species then considered to be included in Flabellina redistributed the species into seven families and 26 genera.[5]
^Gmelin, Johann Friedrich. 1791. In: C. Linnaeus. Systema Naturae, per regna tria naturae, : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. ed. 13, 1(6):3103- 3107, 3147-3148.
^Gosliner T.M., Griffiths R.J. (1981) Description and revision of some South African aeolidacean Nudibranchia (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Annals of the South African Museum 84: 105–150.
^Gosliner T. M. & Willan R. C. (1991). "Review of the Flabellinidae (Nudibranchia: Aeolidacea) from the tropical Indo-Pacific, with the descriptions of five new species". The Veliger34(2):
97-133.
page 109.
Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA).
ISBN0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
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 page(s): 222