| Luisella | |
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| Luisella babai | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Aeolidacea |
| Family: | Samlidae |
| Genus: | Luisella Korshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 20171 |
| Type species | |
| Luisella babai (Schmekel, 1972)
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Luisella is a genus of sea slugs, specifically aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Samlidae2.
Until recently3, it was a monotypic genus.
Species
Currently, species within Luisella include3
- Luisella babai (Schmekel, 1972)
- Luisella bulbosa (Ortea & Espinosa, 1998)
- Luisella engeli (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1968)
- Luisella llerae (Ortea, 1989)
- Luisella telja (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967)
References
References
- 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.
- MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Luisella Korshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, H. Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2026-05-31.
- 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.
Bibliography
Bibliography
- Gary R. McDonald, University of California Santa Cruz Nudibranch Systematic Index University of California Santa Cruz (PDF), in Institute of Marine Sciences (2006).
- Egidio Trainito, Nudibranchi del Mediterraneo. Guida al riconoscimento dei molluschi opistobranchi, 2005ª ed., Milano, Il Castello, 2005, ISBN 88-8039-438-X.