Flabellina gabinierei (Ghost Aeolid) is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Flabellinidae. 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.
Distribution This nudibranch was described from the islet of La Gabinière, Port-Cros National Park, France. It has since been found in La Ciotat, France, Antalya, Turkey, and Cadaques, Spain
Description This nudibranch is translucent white in colour and reaches 30 mm in length. The tips of the rhinophores, oral tentacles and tail are dusted with white. The digestive gland in the cerata is dark brown, green or possibly red and there is no pigment on the surfaces of the cerata. The rhinophores have small annular wrinkles.Rudman, W.B., 2003 (March 19) Piseinotecus gabinierei (Vicente, 1975). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
Ecology Flabellina gabinierei feeds on hydroids of the genus Eudendrium.
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