Tambja
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| Tambja sagamiana in Sukumo Bay, Kochi Prefecture, Japan, head end towards the right | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Polyceroidea |
| Family: | Polyceridae |
| Subfamily: | Nembrothinae |
| Genus: | Tambja Burn, 1962[1] |
Tambja is a genus of colorful sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Polyceridae.[2]
Biology
These nudibranchs feed on bryozoa. 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.[3]
Species
Species in the genus Tambja include:[2][4]
- Tambja abdere Farmer, 1978 - synonym: Tambja fusca[5]
- Tambja affinis (Eliot, 1904)
- Tambja amakusana Baba, 1987
- Tambja amitina (Bergh, 1905)
- Tambja anayana Ortea, 1989
- Tambja blacki Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2006
- Tambja capensis (Bergh, 1907)
- Tambja ceutae Garcia-Gomez & Ortea, 1988
- Tambja diaphana (Bergh, 1877) - nomen dubium
- Tambja divae (Marcus, 1958)
- Tambja eliora (Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1967)
- Tambja fantasmalis Ortea & García-Gómez, 1986
- Tambja gabrielae Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
- Tambja gratiosa (Bergh, 1890)[6] - synonym: Roboastra gratiosa (Bergh, 1890)
- Tambja haidari Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2006
- Tambja limaciformis (Eliot, 1908)
- Tambja marbellensis (Schick & Cervera, 1998)
- Tambja morosa (Bergh, 1877) - synonym: Tambja kushimotoensis Baba, 1987
- Tambja mullineri Farmer, 1978
- Tambja oliva Meyer, 1977
- Tambja olivaria Yonow, 1994
- Tambja sagamiana (Baba, 1955)
- Tambja simplex Ortea & Moro, 1999
- Tambja stegosauriformis Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005[7]
- Tambja tentaculata 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
References
- ↑ Burn (1962). Mem. Natn. Mus. Vict. 25: 98.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Animalia/Tambja_Genus.asp#Taxonomy
- ↑ Pola, M.; Cervera, J. L.; Gosliner, T. M. (2006). "Description of two new phanerobranch nembrothid species (Nudibranchia: Polyceridae: Doridacea)". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 86 (2): 403. doi:10.1017/S0025315406013269.
- ↑ http://seaslugforum.net
- ↑ Pola M., Valles Y., Cervera J. L., Medina M. & Gosliner T. M. (2006). "Taxonomic status of Tambja abdere and T. fusca based on morphological and molecular evidence, with comments on the phylogeny of the subfamily Nembrothinae (Nudibranchia, Polyceridae)". Annales Zoologici Fenici 43: 52-64. PDF.
- ↑ Bergh L. S. R. (1890). Report on the nudibranchs. Report on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-1878) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-1880), by the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lleut.-Commander C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. 19(3)(3), 155-181 Pls.1-3. [172-5, Pl.2 figs 1-5. Pl.3 figs 1-4]
- ↑ Pola P. M., Cervera J. L. & Gosliner T. M. (2005). "A new species of Tambja (Nudibranchia: Polyceridae: Nembrothinae)". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 85(4): 979-984. PDF.
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