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Babakinidae

Babakina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platelmito
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida

Superfamily: Flabellinoidea
Family: Flabellinidae
Genus: Babakina
Roller, 1973
Type species
Babaina festiva Roller, 1972
Diversity
4 species
Synonyms
  • Babainidae Roller, 1972 (inv.)
  • Babaina Roller, 1972 (invalid: junior homonym of Babaina Odhner, 1968; Babakina is a replacement name)
  • Rioselleolis Ortea, 1979

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida

Babakina is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Flabellinoidea.

Babakina is in the subfamily Babakininae within the family Flabellinidae in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, (2005).Babakina is the type genus of the subfamily Babakininae.

Gosliner et al. (2007) have elevated Babakinidae to the family level with the only genus Babakina.

As of 2012, the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) still categorizes this genus in the family Flabellinidae

There are four species within the genus Babakina:



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