It is a parasite of the cuttlefish Sepia elegans.

Chromidina elegans was first described from specimen collected from off Naples, Italy, by Foettinger in 1881, bearing the name Benedenia elegans.

[1] It was reassigned to the Genus Chromidina by Gonder, in 1905.

[3] and again redescribed in 2016 based on material in the collections of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.

In the 2016 description, a neohapantotype and paraneohapantotypes were designated the species.