title: Babakina
text: # 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.
  
  