Paraflabellina, Korshunova, Tatiana, Martynov, Alexander, Bakken, Torkild, Evertsen, Jussi, Fletcher, Karin, Mudianta, I Wayan, Saito, Hiroshi, Lundin, Kennet, Michael Schroedl, & Picton, Bernard, 2017

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 : 47-48

Paraflabellina gen. n. Figs 2, 34

Type species.

Flabellina ischitana Hirano & Thompson, 1990.

Etymology.

From Ancient Greek παρα (= beside, adjacent to) and Flabellina in reference to the external similarity of the type species F. ischitana to Flabellina s. str., but disparate molecular results that render the genus Flabellina s. l. paraphyletic in relation to the genus Calmella if F. ischitana is included within Flabellina .

Diagnosis.

Body narrow. Notal ridge completely absent. Cerata on high compound stalks. Rhinophores with ring lamellae, 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. Proximal and distal receptaculum seminis. Long vas deferens without distinct prostate. Penis conical.

Species included.

Paraflabellina funeka (Gosliner & Griffiths, 1981), comb. n. (original description in Gosliner and Griffiths 1981), Paraflabellina gabinierei (Vicente, 1975), comb. n. (original description in Vicente 1975; additional data in Schmekel 1980), Paraflabellina ischitana (Hirano & Thompson, 1990) (original description in Hirano and Thompson 1990; redescription in Cervera et al. 1998), Paraflabellina (?) rubromaxilla rubromaxilla (Edmunds, 2015), comb. n. (original description in Edmunds 2015).