Babakina is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Flabellinoidea.

[5] The genus is named after the Japanese malacologist Kikutaro Baba (1905-2001).

[6] Babakina is in the subfamily Babakininae within the family Flabellinidae in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, (2005).

[3] Gosliner et al. (2007)[2] have elevated Babakinidae to the family level with the only genus Babakina.

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.