Tergipes

Tergipes
The nudibranch Tergipes tergipes, Gulen Dive Centre, Norway.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Heterobranchia
Clade: Euthyneura
Clade: Nudipleura
Order: Nudibranchia
Clade: Dexiarchia
Infraorder: Cladobranchia
Clade: Aeolidida
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Fionidae
Genus: Tergipes
Cuvier, 1805[1]

Tergipes is a genus of sea slugs, specifically aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tergipedidae.[2] Tergipes is the type genus of the family Tergipedidae.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Tergipes include:

Species names currently considered to be synonyms:

Ecology

Species of Tergipes feed on hydroids, as reflected by the serrated radula.[5] A recent study showed that Tergipes tergipes is an amphi-atlantic species.[6]

References

  1. Cuvier, G. L. C. F. D. (1805). Mémoire sur la Scyllee, l'Eolide et le Glaucus, avec des additions au mémoire sur la Tritonie. Annales de Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 6:416-436, pl. 61.
  2. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Tergipes Cuvier, 1805. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2014-12-10
  3. 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 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. Schrödl, M. 2003. Sea slugs of southern South America. ConchBooks, Hackenheim.
  5. Walter J. Lambert (1991). "Coexistence of hydroid eating nudibranchs: do feeding biology and habitat use matter?". Biological Bulletin. 181 (2): 248–260. doi:10.2307/1542096.
  6. Cámara, S., Carmona, L., Cella, K., Ekimova, I., Martynov, A., & Cervera, J. L., (2014). Tergipes tergipes (Förskal, 1775) (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) is an amphiatlantic species. Journal of Molluscan Studies (2014) 80: 642–646. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyu015
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