Tethydidae

Tethydidae is a family of dendronotid nudibranch 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).

Genera

There are two genera within the family Tethydidae:

Melibe Rang, 1829

Tethys Linnaeus, 1767 - the type genus, with only one species Tethys fimbria Linnaeus, 1767

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.

References

External links

"Tethydidae". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

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