Tethydidae | |
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Tethys fimbria on the sand bottom shows its broad oral hood on the left (the head end) and the body with two rows of spotted cerata | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
Superfamily: | Dendronotoidea |
Family: |
Tethydidae Rafinesque, 1815 |
Type genus | |
Tethys | |
Diversity [1] | |
2 genera 15 valid species and 3 doubtful species | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Tethydidae is a family of dendronotid nudibranch gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Dendronotoidea. [3]
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).
This family is within the clade Cladobranchia and has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). [2]
There are two [1] genera within the family Tethydidae:
Species in this family do not possess a radula. [4]
Tethydidae | |
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Tethys fimbria on the sand bottom shows its broad oral hood on the left (the head end) and the body with two rows of spotted cerata | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
Superfamily: | Dendronotoidea |
Family: |
Tethydidae Rafinesque, 1815 |
Type genus | |
Tethys | |
Diversity [1] | |
2 genera 15 valid species and 3 doubtful species | |
Synonyms [2] | |
|
Tethydidae is a family of dendronotid nudibranch gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Dendronotoidea. [3]
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).
This family is within the clade Cladobranchia and has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). [2]
There are two [1] genera within the family Tethydidae:
Species in this family do not possess a radula. [4]