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 > Genus Flabellina

Flabellina affinis (Gmelin, 1791)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Doris Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Flabellina*	McMurtrie, 1831	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Eolidia flabellina*	Vérany, 1846	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: flabellina lila sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Dutch: purperen zeenaaktslak; violette draadslak

English: Mediterranean violet aeolid; purple nudibranch; purple sea slug; slit limpets sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

French: flabelline mauve

German: violette Fadenschnecke; Violette MittelmeerFadenschnecke sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Italian: flabellina rosa

Spanish, Castillian: flabellina violeta

Literature

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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Flabellina affinis (Gmelin, 1791). 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:139988