Corambidae | |
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an undescribed Corambid, the crazed nudibranch, Corambe sp. | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Onchidoridoidea |
Family: | Corambidae Bergh, 1869, 1892 |
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Corambidae is a family of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Onchidoridoidea. This family is within the clade Euctenidiacea.[1]
Species in this family show a characteristic posterior notch in the notum (which is lacking in some taxa) and a characteristic gill morphology, especially the presence of ventral gills.
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These nudibranches occur in littoral and sublittoral temperate waters of the northern and southern hemispheres.
They are mostly small (between 5 and 10 mm) and rather hard to find because they are very well camouflaged. They prey on encrusting bryozoans. Echinocorambe brattegardi is the only abyssal species in this family and is found in the deep waters of the Norwegian Sea.
There are fewer than twenty species in this family. According to Angel Valdes & Philippe Bouchet (1998), the genera within the family Corambidae include [2]: