Coryphella borealis

Coryphella borealis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Aeolidacea
Family: Flabellinidae
Genus: Coryphella
Species:
C. borealis
Binomial name
Coryphella borealis
Odhner, 1922[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Flabellina borealis (Odhner, 1922)
  • Gulenia borealis (Odhner, 1922)

Coryphella borealis is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Flabellinidae[3].

Distribution

This species was described from Norway. It has been found in deeper waters of the North Sea associated with the sea pen Funiculina quadrangularis.[4]

References

  1. ^ Odhner, N. H. (1922). Norwegian opisthobranchiate Mollusca in the collections of the Zoological Museum of Kristiania. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 60:1-47, Accessed 2015.10.26
  2. ^ Picton, B. (2025) Gulenia borealis (Odhner, 1922). MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2026-05-05
  3. ^ Ekimova I., Carmona L., Mikhlina AL., Grishina D., Stanovova M.V., Schepetov D.M., Hoover C., de Souza-Canal J., Kuznetsov K.O., Valdés A.; (2026). Neither "lumpers" nor "splitters": A global revision of Flabellinidae s.l. nudibranchs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia). PLoS One 21(5): e0347759.
  4. ^ Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Bakken, T.; Evertsen, J.; Fletcher, K.; Mudianta, 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.