Tethydidae
| Tethydidae | |
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| A live individual of Melibe leonina | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Tritonioidea |
| Family: | Tethydidae Rafinesque, 1815 |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 2 genera 15 valid species and 3 doubtful species | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Tethydidae is a taxonomic family of sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Tritonioidea.
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).[2]
Genera
There are two[1] genera within the family Tethydidae:
- Melibe Rang, 1829
- Tethys Linnaeus, 1767 - the type genus, with only one species Tethys fimbria Linnaeus, 1767[3]
- Genera brought into synonymy
- Chioraera Gould, 1852 accepted as Melibe Rang, 1829
- Jacunia de Filippi, 1867 accepted as Melibe Rang, 1829
- Melibaea synonym of Melibe Rang, 1829
- Propemelibe Allan, 1932 accepted as Melibe Rang, 1829
Description
Species in this family do not possess a radula.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. PDF.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rudman W. B. (14 October 2002) "http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=tethfimb". Sea Slug Forum, accessed 29 December 2010.
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