title: Coryphellina exoptata
text: # Coryphellina exoptata
  
  Coryphellina exoptata, which can be translated as the much-desired flabellina or desirable flabellina, is a species of colourful sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This species was described from Madang, Papua New Guinea. Coryphellina exoptata is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific.
  
  ## Description
  
  Coryphellina exoptata is typically about 30 millimetres (1.2 in) in length when mature but can reach 48 millimetres (1.9 in).
  
  