Tethydidae
| Tethydidae | |
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| A live individual of Melibe leonina | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Family: | Tethydidae Rafinesque, 1815
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| Type genus | |
| Tethys | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 2 genera 15 valid species and 3 doubtful species | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Tethydidae is a family of dendronotid nudibranch gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Tritonioidea.
The original spelling (subfamily) is Tethydia. It was placed on the Official List by Opinion 1182 of ICZN (1981: 174), which also ruled that the name should be corrected to Tethydidae (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Taxonomy
This family is within the clade Cladobranchia and has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]
Genera
There are two[1] genera within the family Tethydidae:
- Melibe Rang, 1829
- Tethys Linnaeus, 1767 - the type genus, with only one species Tethys fimbria Linnaeus, 1767[3]
- Genera brought into synonymy
- Chioraera Gould, 1852 accepted as Melibe Rang, 1829
- Jacunia de Filippi, 1867 accepted as Melibe Rang, 1829
- Melibaea synonym of Melibe Rang, 1829
- Propemelibe Allan, 1932 accepted as Melibe Rang, 1829
Description
Species in this family do not possess a radula.[3]
References
- ^ a b Gosliner T. M. & Smith V. G. (2003). "Systematic review and phylogenetic analysis of the nudibranch genus Melibe (Opistobranchia: Dendronotacea) with descriptions of three new species". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 54: 302-355. PDF.
- ^ a b Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ a b Rudman W. B. (14 October 2002) "http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=tethfimb". Sea Slug Forum, accessed 29 December 2010.
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