Babakina
# Babakina

Babakina is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Flabellinoidea. The genus is named after the Japanese malacologist Kikutaro Baba (1905-2001).

## Taxonomy

Babakina is in the subfamily Babakininae within the family Flabellinidae in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, (2005). Babakina is the type genus of the subfamily Babakininae.

Gosliner et al. (2007) have elevated Babakinidae to the family level with the only genus Babakina.

## Species

There are four species within the genus Babakina:

* Babakina anadoni (Ortea, 1979)
* Babakina caprinsulensis (Miller, 1974)
* Babakina festiva (Roller, 1972) - type species
* Babakina indopacifica Gosliner, Gonzáles-Duarte & Cervera, 2007

In 2022 Babakina anadoni was found off the coast of the Isles of Scilly. Previously this rare 2cm long species was only known from a handful of specimens found along the west coast of Spain and further south in the Atlantic.

