Author: Undescribed

Order: Nudibranchia  Family: Flabellinidae

Maximum Size: 25 mm

Sightings: Sunshine Coast

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Formerly listed on this site as Flabellina sp. 09.

Note on Coryphellina:
As mentioned above, Coryphellina O’Donoghue, 1929, was re-erected by Korshunova et al, 2017. Since then its use has become frequent despite reservations from some taxonomists who cite that: some taxa were omitted, paraphyly was simply transferred and sampling was insufficient. Ekimova et al, 2022 conducted further molecular testing and subsequently identified and described four new closely related cryptic species and two putative species of Coryphellina. In order to stay in step with most common usage we are now using Coryphellina. There is no doubt that there is a clade involved. There is also no doubt there were issues of paraphyly in Flabellina previously and the splitting into additional genera such as Samla and Coryphellina may not entirely solve that issue, however, given the current usage (>4 years), it may be more confusing not to make the change at this point. Once larger sampling across more geolocations is undertaken a clearer picture may be resolved.