Family of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tethydidae is a family of dendronotid nudibranch gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Dendronotoidea.[3]
| 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 | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| 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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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:
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