#4790 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Mediterranean Violet Aeolid
🇳🇱 Violette draadslak ·Flabellina affinis
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Girona, ES-CT, ES
📍 isla de tarifa
📍 Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES
📍 Balearen-Meer, Formentera, ES
📍 Les Balelles, Sant Felíu de Guixols, Girona, Spain.
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Simone Carletti · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © João Pedro Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Carmelo López Abad · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Girona, ES-CT, ES:© xavi salvador costa · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. isla de tarifa:© whodden · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES:© Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. Balearen-Meer, Formentera, ES:© ocean_explorers · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Les Balelles, Sant Felíu de Guixols, Girona, Spain.:© Carmelo López Abad · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Flabellina affinis is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Flabellinidae. It is the type species of the genus Flabellina .
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 2,547 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1791 (235 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Mediterranean Violet Aeolid
- Nederlands
- Violette draadslak
- scientific name
- Flabellina affinis
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Nudibranchia
- family
- Flabellinidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,859
- sightings worldwide
- 2,547
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1791 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
relatives· Flabellinidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 326338, Wikidata Q286819, GBIF 5724792, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.