''Tambja'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of colorful
sea slug
Sea slug is a common name for some marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are sea snails (marine gastropod mollusks) that over evolutionary time ...
s, dorid
nudibranch
Nudibranchs () are a group of soft-bodied marine gastropod molluscs which shed their shells after their larval stage. They are noted for their often extraordinary colours and striking forms, and they have been given colourful nicknames to match, ...
s, shell-less
marine gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
s in the family
Polyceridae
The Polyceridae are a taxonomic family of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Polyceroidea.
Taxonomy
The family Polyceridae is classified within the clade Doridacea, itself belonging to the clade Euc ...
.
[MolluscaBase (2018)]
''Tambja'' Burn, 1962.
Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2018-08-20.
Biology
These nudibranchs feed on
bryozoa
Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies. Typically about long, they have a special feeding structure called a ...
ns. 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.
Species
Species in the genus ''Tambja'' include:
* ''
Tambja abdere''
Farmer, 1978 - synonym: ''Tambja fusca''
* ''
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
* ''
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) - synonym: ''Roboastra gratiosa'' (Bergh, 1890)
* ''
Tambja haidari''
Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2006
* ''
Tambja kava''
Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014
* ''
Tambja marbellensis
''Tambja'' is a genus of colorful sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family Polyceridae.MolluscaBase (2018)''Tambja'' Burn, 1962.Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2018-08- ...
''
(Schick & Cervera, 1998)
* ''
Tambja morosa''
( Bergh, 1877) - synonym: ''Tambja kushimotoensis''
Baba, 1987
* ''
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
* ''
Tambja tenuilineata''
Miller & Haagh, 2005
* ''
Tambja verconis''
(Basedow & Hedley, 1905) - type species
* ''
Tambja victoriae''
Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
* ''
Tambja zulu''
Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
The nominal species ''Tambja amakusana'' Baba, 1987, ''T. mediterranea'' Domínguez, Pola & Ramón, 2015, and ''T. oliva'' Meyer, 1977 have been placed in the new genus ''
Martadoris''.
[Willan R.C. & Chang Y.-W. en-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.]
References
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Polyceridae