Philinopsis

A live individual of Philinopsis speciosa in situ
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Cephalaspidea
Family:	Aglajidae
Genus:	Philinopsis Pease, 1860^[1]
Synonyms^[1]
Acera Lamarck, 1822 Eidothea Risso, 1826 (nomen oblitum)

Philiopsis is a genus of often colorful, medium-sized sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks. These are not nudibranchs; instead they are headshield slugs, in the clade Cephalaspidea.^[1]

Species

Recognized species within the genus Philinopsis are:^[1]

References

Rudman W. B. (1972). "A comparative study of the genus Philinopsis Pease, 1860 (Aglajidae, Opisthobranchia)". Pacific Science 26(4): 381-399. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/443
Pease, W.H. (1860) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the Sandwich Islands (Part II). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1860, 141–148.
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
Ortea, Moro & Espinosa (2007). Revista Academia Canar. Cienc. XVIII (4) : 33-52
Gosliner T.M. (2011) Six new species of aglajid opisthobranch mollusks from the tropical Indo-Pacific. Zootaxa 2751: 1–24. page 7

Taxon identifiers
Philinopsis	Wikidata: Q17144414 Wikispecies: Philinopsis ADW: Philinopsis AFD: Philinopsis BOLD: 103944 CoL: 7PCFF GBIF: 2291508 iNaturalist: 49866 IRMNG: 1350016 ITIS: 76213 NCBI: 259619 NZOR: 478b7762-e731-457a-9686-af3538b835cc Open Tree of Life: 621615 uBio: 504995 WoRMS: 137640