Purple Flabellina
Amazing fact
The purple Flabellina’s red body lines may be broken or entirely absent.
Solitary Islands Underwater Research Group
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The purple Flabellina’s red body lines may be broken or entirely absent.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Purple Flabellina
- Scientific name
- Coryphellina rubrolineata
- Japanese name
- セスジミノウミウシ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Nudibranchia
- Family
- Flabellinidae
- Genus
- Coryphellina
How the Purple Flabellina lives
It feeds on hydroids.
Solitary Islands Underwater Research GroupBasic data
- Range
- The Indian to western Pacific oceans
Where the Purple Flabellina has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- セスジミノウミウシ
- 简体中文
- 红扇羽海蛞蝓
- 繁體中文
- 紅扇羽海蛞蝓
- Français
- Flabelline à lignes rouges
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — セスジミノウミウシChecked: 2026-11-04
- Solitary Islands Underwater Research Group — Coryphellina rubrolineata (O’Donoghue, 1929)Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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