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2026 · Photo: Boaz Liebes
Desirable flabellina
Philippines · Indo Pacific - South China Sea
A vividly coloured flabellinid aeolid whose name means 'much desired', in reference to its beauty. Originally described as Flabellina exoptata and widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific.
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Deep pinkish-purple body; vivid orange rhinophores with over 120 yellow-tipped papillae. Cerata in simple linear rows, banded with purple rings and cream-yellow tips. Oral tentacles often with an opaque cream-yellow outer third. Stockier than its relatives.
Coryphellina rubrolineata and related species have cerata arranged in horseshoe-shaped arches rather than simple rows; C. delicata is more slender with far fewer rhinophoral papillae.
Coral reefs; recorded around 12 m.
Hydroids, like other Coryphellina.
