Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Pteropoda > Suborder Euthecosomata > Superfamily Cavolinioidea > Family Cavoliniidae > Subfamily Cavoliniinae > Genus Cavolinia

Cavolinia inflexa (Lesueur, 1813)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cavolinia*	Abildgaard, 1791	accepted genus name
*Hyalea*	[sic]	orthographic variant
*Archonta*	Montfort, 1810	synonym
*Cavolina*	Abildgaard, 1791	synonym
*Hyalaea*	Lamarck, 1799	synonym
*Pleuropus*	Eschscholtz, 1825	synonym

Species group names

*Archonta explorata*	Montfort, 1810	synonym
*Cavolinia curvata*	(Souleyet, 1852)	synonym
*Cleodora curvata*	Souleyet, 1852	synonym
*Cleodora pleuropa*	Souleyet, 1852	synonym
*Hyalaea depressa*	A. d'Orbigny, 1835	synonym
*Hyalaea elongata*	Blainville, 1821	synonym
*Hyalaea inflexa*	Lesueur, 1813	synonym
*Hyalaea inflexa var. lata*	Boas, 1886	synonym
*Hyalaea inflexa var. longa*	Boas, 1886	synonym
*Pleuropus pellucidus*	Eschscholtz, 1825	synonym

Children

Cavolinia inflexa imitans (Pfeffer, 1880)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Fanged Sea Butterfly sources: Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Southern Underwater Research Group Press, 7 Blackwood Drive, Hout Bay 7806, Cape Town, South Africa.

Japanese: マサコカメガイ

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.
additional source	Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Southern Underwater Research Group Press, 7 Blackwood Drive, Hout Bay 7806, Cape Town, South Africa.
additional source	Rampal J. (2002). Biodiversité et biogéographie chez les Cavoliniidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Euthecosomata). Régions faunistiques marines. Zoosystema : 24(2): 209-258
additional source	Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974].
additional source	Janssen, A.W. (2012). Late Quaternary to Recent holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from bottom samples of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: systematics, morphology. Bollettino Malacologico. 48 (suplemento 9): 1-105.
additional source	Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cavolinia inflexa (Lesueur, 1813). 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:139029