Flabellina gabinierei (Vicente, 1975)

Description

A small flabellinid with a translucent white body. The rhinophores, oral tentacles, and tail tip are pure white. Inside each ceras the dark brown digestive gland is visible through the transparent ceratal wall. The rhinophores carry fine annular ridges along their length.

Distribution

The type locality is the islet of La Gabinière in the Port-Cros National Park, north-western Mediterranean coast of France, based on material described by Vicente (1975) as Facelina gabinierei. Subsequent records extend across the Mediterranean and the eastern Atlantic, including Spain, Turkey, and the Baltic coast of Latvia.

Etymology

The specific epithet gabinierei refers to La Gabinière, the type locality off the French Mediterranean coast.

Remarks

Externally distinguished from the sympatric Flabellina affinis by its dark brown digestive gland (F. affinis has a red-orange digestive gland).

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References

• Facelina gabinierei n. sp., Vicente N. (1975). Une nouvelle espèce de gastéropodes nudibranches en Méditerranée: Facelina gabinierei n. sp. Travaux scientifiques du Parc national de Port-Cros. 1: 67-74.
• Paraflabellina gabinierei (Vicente, 1975), comb. n., Korshunova T., Martynov A., Bakken T., Evertsen J., Fletcher K., Mudianta I.W., Saito H., Lundin K., Schrödl M. & Picton B. (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: 1-139. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.717.21885
• Flabellina gabinierei (Vicente, 1975), Ekimova, I., Carmona, L., Mikhlina, A. L., Grishina, D., Stanovova, M. V., Schepetov, D. M., Hoover, C., de Souza-Canal, J., Kuznetsov, K. O., & Valdés, Á. (2026). Neither "lumpers" nor "splitters": A global revision of Flabellinidae s.l. nudibranchs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia). PLoS One. 21(5): e0347759. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0347759