Favorinus (gastropod)

Favorinus is a genus of small sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Facelinidae.^[2]

Favorinus
Favorinus blianus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Suborder:	Cladobranchia
Superfamily:	Aeolidioidea
Family:	Facelinidae
Genus:	Favorinus M. E. Gray, 1850[1]
Type species
Eolis alba Alder & Hancock, 1844
Synonyms[2]
Matharena Bergh in Mörch, 1871

Species

Species within the genus Favorinus include:

• Favorinus auritulus Er. Marcus, 1955
• Favorinus blianus Lemche & Thompson, 1974
• Favorinus branchialis (Rathke, 1806)
• Favorinus elenalexiae Garcia F. & Troncoso, 2001
• Favorinus ghanensis Edmunds, 1968
• Favorinus japonicus Baba, 1949
• Favorinus joubini (Risbec, 1928)
• Favorinus mirabilis Baba, 1955
• Favorinus pacificus Baba, 1937
• Favorinus pannuceus Burn, 1962
• Favorinus perfoliatus Baba, 1949
• Favorinus tsuruganus Baba & Abe, 1964
• Favorinus vitreus Ortea, 1982

Species brought into synonymy

• Favorinus albidus Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923: synonym of Favorinus branchialis (Rathke, 1806) (synonym)
• Favorinus albus Odhner, 1914: synonym of Dicata odhneri Schmekel, 1967 (dubious synonym)
• Favorinus albus (Alder & Hancock, 1844): synonym of Favorinus branchialis (Rathke, 1806)
• Favorinus horridus Macnae, 1954: synonym of Phyllodesmium horridum (Macnae, 1954)