Tethydidae
Tethydidae is a family of dendronotid nudibranch gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Tritonioidea.
| Tethydidae | |
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| Tethys fimbria on the sand bottom shows its broad oral hood on the left (the head end) and the body with two rows of spotted cerata | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
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| Family: | Tethydidae Rafinesque, 1815 |
| Type genus | |
| Tethys | |
| Diversity | |
| 2 genera 15 valid species and 3 doubtful species | |
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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 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 [sic] : Melibe Rang, 1829 (incorrect subsequent spelling [by Forbes, 1838] of Melibe Rang, 1829)
- Propemelibe Allan, 1932 accepted as Melibe Rang, 1829
Description
Species in this family do not possess a radula.
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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