Tethydidae is a
family of
dendronotid nudibranch gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the superfamily
Tritonioidea.
[Picton, B.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Tethydidae Rafinesque, 1815. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23125 on 2017-12-20]
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).
Genera
There are two
[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]
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genera within the family Tethydidae:
* ''
Melibe''
Rang, 1829
* ''
Tethys''
Linnaeus, 1767 - the
type genus,
;Genera brought into synonymy :
* ''Chioraera''
Gould, 1852 accepted as ''Melibe''
Rang, 1829
* ''Fimbria''
O'Donoghue, 1926: synonym of ''Tethys''
Linnaeus, 1767 (invalid: junior homonym of Fimbria Megerle, 1811.)
* ''Jacunia''
de Filippi, 1867 accepted as ''Melibe''
Rang, 1829
* ''Melibaea'' synonym of ''Melibe''
Rang, 1829
* ''Meliboea''
ic: ''Melibe''
Rang, 1829 (incorrect subsequent spelling
y Forbes, 1838of Melibe Rang, 1829)
* ''Propemelibe''
Allan, 1932 accepted as ''Melibe''
Rang, 1829
Description
Species in this family do not possess a
radula
The radula (, ; plural radulae or radulas) is an anatomical structure used by molluscs for feeding, sometimes compared to a tongue. It is a minutely toothed, chitinous ribbon, which is typically used for scraping or cutting food before the food ...
.
[ Rudman W. B. (14 October 2002]
"http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=tethfimb"
Sea Slug Forum, accessed 29 December 2010.
References
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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Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque