Tethydidae
| Tethydidae | |
|---|---|
| Tethys fimbria on the sand bottom with a broad oral hood on the left (the head end) and a body with two rows of spotted cerata | |
| Melibe leonina | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Dendronotacea |
| Superfamily: | Dendronotoidea |
| Family: | Tethydidae Rafinesque, 1815 |
| Type genus | |
| Tethys Linnaeus, 1767
| |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 2 genera 20 valid species and 3 uncertain species | |
| Synonyms[2][1] | |
Tethydidae is a family of nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs or sea slugs, in the superfamily Dendronotoidea.[1]
Description
Species in this family do not possess a radula.[3]
Genera
Two genera are recognized within the family Tethydidae:[4][1]
Nomenclature
The group was originally established as Tethydia, as a subfamily.[2] In 1981, the Official List by Opinion 1182 of ICZN (1981: 174) ruled the corrected name of the group is Tethydidae and not the incorrect spelling Tethyidae.[5] [2]
Explanatory notes
References
- ^ a b c d Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Tethydidae Rafinesque, 1815". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2026-03-01.
- ^ a b c Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Hausdorf, Bernhard; Kaim, Andrzej; Kano, Yasunori; Nützel, Alexander; Parkhaev, Pavel; Schrödl, Michael; Strong, Ellen E. (December 2017). "Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of Gastropod and Monoplacophoran Families". Malacologia. 61 (1–2): 1–526. doi:10.4002/040.061.0201. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ Rudman W. B. (14 October 2002) "http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=tethfimb". Sea Slug Forum, accessed 29 December 2010.
- ^ Gosliner, Terrence M.; Smith, Victor G. (2003). "Systematic review and phylogenetic analysis of the nudibranch genus Melibe (Opisthobranchia: Dendronotacea) with descriptions of three new species". Proceedings of The California Academy of Sciences. 54: 302–355.
- ^ Nomenclature, International Commission on Zoological (1981). "Opinion 1182 Tethyidae in Mollusca, Porifera and Tunicata: removal of homonymy". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 38: 174–177.
External links
- Forbes E. (1844). Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on geology. Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1843. 130-193
- Goodheart, J. A.; Bazinet, A. L.; Valdés, Á.; Collins, A. G.; Cummings, M. P. (2017). Prey preference follows phylogeny: evolutionary dietary patterns within the marine gastropod group Cladobranchia (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17(1)
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