Flabellina arveloi
Ortea & Espinosa, 1998

Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: AEOLIDINA
Family: Flabellinidae

DISTRIBUTION

West Africa

PHOTO

Cape Verde Archipelago, October, 2002. Photo: Gonçalo Calado.

Described from West Africa, it appears to be very similar externally to Flabellina marcusorum which was reported in the original description from the east Pacific, Caribbean and Brazil.

• Ortea, J. & Espinosa, J. 1998. Estudio de nueve especies del genero Flabellina Voigt, 1834 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia) colectadas en Angola, Cabo Verde, Costa Rica, Cuba y Portugal, con la descripcion de tres especies nuevas. Avicennia, 8/9: 135-148.

Authorship details
Rudman, W.B., 2002 (December 22) Flabellina arveloi Ortea & Espinosa, 1998. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/flabarve

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