{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Babakina indopacifica.JPG | image_caption = ''Babakina indopacifica'' |display_parents= 3 | parent_authority = Roller, 1973 | taxon = Babakina | authority = Roller, 1973<ref>Roller R. A. (1 July 1973). ''The Veliger'' '''16'''(1): 118.</ref> | diversity_ref = <ref name="Gosliner 2007"/> | diversity_link = #Species | diversity = 4 species | synonyms_ref = <ref name="Bouchet 2005"/> | synonyms = * Babainidae <small>Roller, 1972</small> (inv.)<ref>Roller R. A. (1 April) 1972. The Veliger, 14(4): 416.</ref> * ''Babaina'' <small>Roller, 1972</small> <small>(invalid: junior homonym of Babaina Odhner, 1968; Babakina is a replacement name)</small> * ''Rioselleolis'' <small>Ortea, 1979</small> | type_species = ''Babaina festiva'' <small>Roller, 1972</small> }}
'''''Babakina''''' is a genus of aeolid nudibranchs and the only member of the family '''Babakinidae'''.<ref name=Korshunova_et_al2025>{{Cite journal |last=Korshunova |first=Tatiana |last2=Fletcher |first2=Karin |last3=Martynov |first3=Alexander |date=2025-08-01 |title=The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case |url=https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf057/8237533 |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |language=en |volume=204 |issue=4 |doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf057 |issn=0024-4082|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The genus is named after the Japanese malacologist Kikutaro Baba (1905-2001).<ref name="DORIS2022">{{cite web |title=BABAKINE D'ANADON |url=https://doris.ffessm.fr/Especes/Babakina-anadoni-Babakine-d-Anadon-4501 |website=Données d'Observations pour la Reconnaissance et l'Identification de la faune et la flore Subaquatiques |publisher=DORIS |access-date=5 August 2022}}</ref>
== Taxonomy == ''Babakina'' was placed in the subfamily Babakininae within the family Flabellinidae in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, (2005).<ref name="Bouchet 2005">{{Bouchet 2005}}</ref> ''Babakina'' is the type genus of the subfamily Babakininae.<ref name="Bouchet 2005"/>
Gosliner et al. (2007)<ref name="Gosliner 2007"/> have elevated Babakinidae to the family level with the only genus ''Babakina''.
==Species== There are four species within the genus ''Babakina'':<ref name="WoRMS">Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). Babakina Roller, 1973. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181255 on 2012-06-03</ref> * ''Babakina anadoni'' <small>(Ortea, 1979)</small><ref name="Gosliner 2007"/> * ''Babakina caprinsulensis'' <small>(Miller, 1974)</small><ref name="Gosliner 2007"/> * ''Babakina festiva'' <small>(Roller, 1972)</small> - type species<ref name="Gosliner 2007"/> * ''Babakina indopacifica'' <small>Gosliner, Gonzáles-Duarte & Cervera, 2007</small><ref name="Gosliner 2007">Gosliner T. M., Gonzáles-Duarte M. M. & Cervera J. L. (2007). "Revision of the systematics of ''Babakina'' Roller, 1973 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) with the description of a new species and a phylogenetic analysis". ''Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society'' '''151'''(4): 671–689. {{doi|10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00331.x}}.</ref> In 2022, ''Babakina anadoni'' was found off the coast of the Isles of Scilly. Previously this rare 2 cm long species was only known from a handful of specimens found along the west coast of Spain and further south in the Atlantic.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Horton |first=Helena |date=4 August 2022 |title=Rare coloured sea slug spotted in British waters for first time |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/04/rare-coloured-sea-slug-spotted-in-british-waters-for-first-time |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804205132/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/04/rare-coloured-sea-slug-spotted-in-british-waters-for-first-time |archive-date=4 August 2022 |access-date=4 August 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref>
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