Tectibranchia

Tectibranchia Cuvier, 1814, also spelled as Tectibranchiata,[1] was previously used as a taxonomic order, or suborder, of gastropods in which the gills are usually situated on one side of the back, and protected by a fold of the mantle.[2] When there is a shell, it is usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary.[2]

Tectibranchia has been firstly used as an order with vernacular name "Tectibranchces" by Georges Cuvier in 1814 to include "les Pleurobranches", "les Pleurobranchaea" and "les Aplisiés ...".[3][4] That cover bubble shells[2] and nowadays families Pleurobranchidae and Aplysiidae.

Thomas Edward Bowdich (1822)[5] latinized the term as Tectibranchi.[4]

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References

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  1. ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1895). Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Polyplacophora, (Chitons.) Acanthochitidae, Cryptoplacidae and appendix. Tectibranchiata. volume 15.
  2. ^ a b c d Gofas, S. (2010). Tectibranchiata. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181509 on 2010-12-29
  3. ^ Cuvier G. In: Blainville H. M. D. d. (1814). "Mémoire sur la classification méthodique des animaux mollusques, et établissement d'une nouvelle considération pour y parvenir". Bulletin des Sciences par la Société Philomatique des Paris, Zoologie (1814): 175-180. page 178.
  4. ^ a b c Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst. 
  5. ^ Bowdich T. E. (1822). Elements of Conchology including the fossil genera and the animals. Part 1, Univalves. Treuttel & Würtz, London, 83 pp + plates captions. page 60.