Tambja
| Tambja | |
|---|---|
| Tambja sagamiana in Sukumo Bay, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan, head end towards the right | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Family: | Polyceridae |
| Subfamily: | Nembrothinae |
| Genus: | Tambja Burn, 1962[1] |
Tambja is a genus of colorful sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Polyceridae.[2]
Biology
These nudibranchs feed on bryozoans. They have a radula which bears a rachidian tooth whose upper margin is either smooth or notched; the lateral tooth has two crowns, and the other teeth are so flat as to resemble plates.[3]
Species
Species in the genus Tambja include:[4][2]
- Tambja abdere Farmer, 1978
- Tambja affinis Eliot, 1904
- Tambja amitina Bergh, 1905 nomen dubium
- Tambja anayana Ortea, 1989
- Tambja blacki Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2006
- Tambja brasiliensis Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014[5]
- Tambja caeruleocirrus Willan & Chang, 2017
- Tambja capensis Bergh, 1907
- Tambja ceutae Garcia-Gomez & Ortea, 1988
- Tambja crioula Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014
- Tambja dracomus Willan & Chang, 2017
- Tambja diaphana Bergh, 1877 - nomen dubium
- Tambja eliora Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1967
- Tambja fantasmalis Ortea & García-Gómez, 1986
- Tambja gabrielae Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
- Tambja gratiosa Bergh, 1890
- Tambja haidari Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2006
- Tambja kava Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014
- Tambja marbellensis Schick & Cervera, 1998
- Tambja morosa Bergh, 1877
- Tambja mullineri Farmer, 1978
- Tambja olivaria Yonow, 1994
- Tambja pulcherrima Willan & Chang, 2017
- Tambja sagamiana Baba, 1955
- Tambja simplex Ortea & Moro, 1999
- Tambja stegosauriformis Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005[6]
- Tambja tenuilineata Miller & Haagh, 2005
- Tambja verconis Basedow & Hedley, 1905 - type species
- Tambja victoriae Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
- Tambja zulu Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
Species brought into synonymy:
- Tambja amakusana Babab,1987: Martadoris amakusana[7]
- Tambja divae Er. Marcus, 1958: synonym of Martadoris divae
- Tambja fusca Farmer,1978: synonym of Tambja abdere[8] Farmer, 1978
- Tambja kushimotoensis Baba, 1987: synonym of Tambja morosa Bergh, 1877
- Tambja limaciformis Eliot, 1908: synonym of Martadoris limaciformis
- Tambja mediterranea M. Domínguez, Pola & Ramón, 2015: synonym of Martadoris mediterranea
- Tambja oliva K. B. Meyer, 1977: synonym of Martadoris oliva
- Tambja tentaculata Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2005: synonym of Roboastra tentaculata
References
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- ^ Burn, R.F. (1962) Descriptions of Victorian nudibranchiate mollusca, with a comprehensive review of the Eolidacea. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 25: 95-128.
- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Tambja Burn, 1962. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2026-03-07.
- ^ Pola, M.; Cervera, J. L.; Gosliner, T. M. (2006). "Description of two new phanerobranch nembrothid species (Nudibranchia: Polyceridae: Doridacea)". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK. 86 (2): 403. Bibcode:2006JMBUK..86..403P. doi:10.1017/S0025315406013269.
- ^ "The Sea Slug Forum - Home". 2006-01-09.
- ^ Pola, Marta; Padula, Vinicius; Gosliner, Terrence M.; Cervera, Juan Lucas (2014-12-01). "Going further on an intricate and challenging group of nudibranchs: description of five novel species and a more complete molecular phylogeny of the subfamily Nembrothinae (Polyceridae)". Cladistics. 30 (6): 607–634. doi:10.1111/cla.12097. ISSN 1096-0031. PMID 34781594.
- ^ Pola P. M., Cervera J. L. & Gosliner T. M. (2005). "A new species of Tambja (Nudibranchia: Polyceridae: Nembrothinae)". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 85(4): 979-984. PDF.
- ^ Willan R.C. & Chang Y.-W. [Yen-Wei]. (2017). Description of three new species of Tambja (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia, Polyceridae) from the western Pacific Ocean reveals morphological characters with taxonomic and phylogenetic significance for traditional Polyceridae and related 'phaneorobranch' nudibranchs. Basteria. 81(1-3): 1-23.
- ^ Pola M., Valles Y., Cervera J. L., Medina M. & Gosliner T. M. (2006). "Taxonomic status of Tambja abdere and T. fusca based on morphological and molecular evidence, with comments on the phylogeny of the subfamily Nembrothinae (Nudibranchia, Polyceridae)". Annales Zoologici Fenici 43: 52-64. PDF.