Bathydorididae

Bathydorididae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea

clade Gnathodoridacea
Superfamily:
Bathydoridoidea

Bergh, 1891
Family:
Bathydorididae

Bergh, 1891
Genera

See text.

Synonyms

Prodorididae Baranetz & Minichev, 1995

A species of Bathydoris nudibranch

Bathydorididae is a taxonomic family of dorid nudibranch, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks.[1]

Bathydorididae is the only family in the superfamily Bathydoridoidea, within the clade Gnathodoridacea.

Taxonomy

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Genera in the family Bathydorididae include:

References

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  1. ^ Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdes A. & Warén A. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278

Further reading

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  • Baranetz, Olga (1993). "The primitive nudibranchiate mollusc: Bathydoris violacea sp. n. (Gastropoda) (in Russian)". Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta Seriya 3 Biologiya. 3: 13–18.
  • Baranetz, O.N. (1995). "Variability of radular apparatus in Bathydorididae (Gastropoda, Doridida)". Ruthenica. 5 (1): 71–72.
  • Baranetz, O.N. (1997). "Variability of the respiratory apparatus in Bathydoris Bergh, 1884 (Gastropoda". Ruthenica. 7 (1): 61–64.
  • Belick, Francis P. 1975 Additional opisthobranch mollusks from Oregon. The Veliger 17 (3): 276-277.
  • Goddard, Jeffrey H.r. 1984. The opisthobranchs of Cape Arago, Oregon, with notes on their biology and a summary of benthic opisthobranchs known from Oregon. The Veliger 27 (2): 143-163.
  • Lance, James R. 1967. The holotype of the abyssal dorid nudibranch Bathydoris aoica Marcus & Marcus, 1962. The Veliger 9 (4) 410.
  • Marcus, Ev. & Er. Marcus. 1962. A new species of the Gnathodoridacea. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 34: 269-275.
  • Valdés, Ángel, and Hans Bertsch. 2000. Redescription and range extension of Bathydoris aioca Marcus & Marcus, 1962 (Nudibranchia: Gnathodoridoidea). The Veliger 43 (2): 172-178.