Babakina

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Babakina
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Babakina indopacifica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Aeolidacea
Superfamily: Aeolidioidea
Family: Babakinidae
Roller, 1973
Genus: Babakina
Roller, 1973 [1]
Type species
Babaina festivaRoller, 1972
Diversity [2]
4 species
Synonyms [3]
  • Babainidae Roller, 1972 (inv.) [4]
  • BabainaRoller, 1972(invalid: junior homonym of Babaina Odhner, 1968; Babakina is a replacement name)
  • RioselleolisOrtea, 1979

Babakina is a genus of aeolid nudibranchs and the only memeber of the family Babakinidae. [5] The genus is named after the Japanese malacologist Kikutaro Baba (1905-2001). [6]

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Taxonomy

Babakina was placed in the subfamily Babakininae within the family Flabellinidae in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, (2005). [3] Babakina is the type genus of the subfamily Babakininae. [3]

Gosliner et al. (2007) [2] have elevated Babakinidae to the family level with the only genus Babakina.

Species

There are four species within the genus Babakina: [7]

In 2022, Babakina anadoni was found off the coast of the Isles of Scilly. Previously this rare 2 cm long species was only known from a handful of specimens found along the west coast of Spain and further south in the Atlantic. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Roller R. A. (1 July 1973). The Veliger16(1): 118.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gosliner T. M., Gonzáles-Duarte M. M. & Cervera J. L. (2007). "Revision of the systematics of Babakina Roller, 1973 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) with the description of a new species and a phylogenetic analysis". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 151(4): 671–689. doi : 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00331.x.
  3. 1 2 3 Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  4. ↑ Roller R. A. (1 April) 1972. The Veliger, 14(4): 416.
  5. ↑ Korshunova, Tatiana; Fletcher, Karin; Martynov, Alexander (1 August 2025). "The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case" . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 204 (4). doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf057. ISSN   0024-4082.
  6. ↑ "BABAKINE D'ANADON". Données d'Observations pour la Reconnaissance et l'Identification de la faune et la flore Subaquatiques. DORIS. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  7. ↑ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). Babakina Roller, 1973. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181255 on 2012-06-03
  8. ↑ Horton, Helena (4 August 2022). "Rare coloured sea slug spotted in British waters for first time". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 4 August 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.


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