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

Calmella Eliot, 1910

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Jojenia*	Aradas, 1847	synonym

Children

Calmella cavolini (Vérany, 1846)
Calmella gaditana (Cervera, García-Gómez & F. J. García, 1987)

Literature

original description	Eliot, C. N. E. (1910). A monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca: with figures of the species. Part VIII (Supplement). Ray Society, London. 1-198, figs. 1-7, pls. 1-8.
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
status source	Furfaro, G.; Salvi, D.; Trainito, E.; Vitale, F.; Mariottini, P. (2021). When morphology does not match phylogeny: The puzzling case of two sibling nudibranchs (Gastropoda). Zoologica Scripta. 50(4): 439-454.
status source	Karmeinski, D.; Meusemann, K.; Goodheart, J. A.; Schroedl, M.; Martynov, A.; Korshunova, T.; Wägele, H.; Donath, A. (2021). Transcriptomics provides a robust framework for the relationships of the major clades of cladobranch sea slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia), but fails to resolve the position of the enigmatic genus Embletonia. BMC Ecology and Evolution. 21(1).
taxonomy source	Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Bakken, T.; Evertsen, J.; Fletcher, K.; Mudianta, W.; Saito, H.; Lundin, K.; Schrödl, M.; Picton, B. (2017). Polyphyly of the traditional family Flabellinidae affects a major group of Nudibranchia: aeolidacean taxonomic reassessment with descriptions of several new families, genera, and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys. 717: 1-139.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Calmella Eliot, 1910. 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:138017