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Ashy egg-eater

Favorinus ghanensis Edmunds, 1968

Status not recordedsnails and slugs

The ashy egg-eater (Favorinus ghanensis) is a species in the family Facelinidae, order Nudibranchia.

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Quick facts about the ashy egg-eater

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the ashy egg-eater live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the ashy egg-eater as introduced in 2 countries.

  1. Morocco
  2. Tunisia

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the ashy egg-eater endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the ashy egg-eater classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumMollusca
  3. classGastropoda
  4. orderNudibranchia
  5. familyFacelinidae
  6. genusFavorinus
  7. SpeciesFavorinus ghanensis Edmunds, 1968

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the ashy egg-eater

Other species in the same genus Favorinus.

White aeolis

Favorinus branchialis

FacelinidaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the ashy egg-eater an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the ashy egg-eater as introduced in 2 countries: Morocco and Tunisia, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the ashy egg-eater?

The ashy egg-eater (Favorinus ghanensis) belongs to the family Facelinidae in the order Nudibranchia.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Ashy egg-eater (Favorinus ghanensis). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/ashy-egg-eater

MLA

“Ashy egg-eater (Favorinus ghanensis).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/ashy-egg-eater.

BibTeX
@misc{ashy_egg_eater_2026,
  title = {Ashy egg-eater (Favorinus ghanensis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/ashy-egg-eater},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}