Flabellinopsis MacFarland, 1966, reinstated

Korshunova, Tatiana, Martynov, Alexander, Bakken, Torkild, Evertsen, Jussi, Fletcher, Karin, Mudianta, I Wayan, Saito, Hiroshi, Lundin, Kennet, Michael Schroedl, & Picton, Bernard, 2017, Polyphyly of the traditional family Flabellinidae affects a major group of Nudibranchia: aeolidacean taxonomic reassessment with descriptions of several new families, genera, and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda), ZooKeys 717, pp. 1-139 : 21

Flabellinopsis MacFarland, 1966, reinstated Figs 2, 7

Type species.

Aeolis ( Phidiana ?) iodinea Cooper, 1863.

Diagnosis.

Body relatively wide. Notal ridge discontinuous. Cerata in separate clusters on broad flaps. Rhinophores perfoliated, shorter than oral tentacles. Anterior foot corners present. Anus pleuroproctic. Rachidian teeth with narrow compressed cusp and distinct denticles. Lateral teeth denticulated with attenuated process basally. Single distal receptaculum seminis. Long vas deferens without distinct prostate. Penis bluntly conical.

Species included.

Flabellinopsis iodinea (Cooper, 1863) (original description in Cooper 1863; detailed redescriptions in MacFarland 1966 and Marcus and Marcus 1967).