Babakina is a genus of aeolid nudibranchs and the only memeber of the family Babakinidae. The genus is named after the Japanese malacologist Kikutaro Baba (1905-2001).
Babakina was placed in the subfamily Babakininae within the family Flabellinidae in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, (2005). Babakina is the type genus of the subfamily Babakininae.
Gosliner et al. (2007) have elevated Babakinidae to the family level with the only genus Babakina.
There are four species within the genus Babakina:
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.