Bathydorididae

Bathydorididae
A species of Bathydoris nudibranch
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Suborder:	Doridina
Infraorder:	Bathydoridoidei Minichev & Starobogatov, 1979
Superfamily:	Bathydoridoidea Bergh, 1891
Family:	Bathydorididae Bergh, 1891
Type genus
Bathydoris Bergh, 1884
Genera
See text
Synonyms
Prodorididae Baranetz & Minichev, 1995

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 infraorder Bathydoridoidei. ^[2]

Taxonomy

Genera in the family Bathydorididae include:

• Bathydoris Bergh, 1884 (type genus) (these nudibranchs live in deep water, below 1,500 m)
  • Bathydoris abyssorum Bergh, 1884 (type species)
  • Bathydoris aioca Marcus & Marcus, 1962
  • Bathydoris clavigera Thiele, 1912 (synonym: Prodoris clavigera)
  • Bathydoris hodgsoni Eliot, 1907
  • Bathydoris ingolfiana Bergh, 1900
  • Bathydoris japonensis Hamatani & Kubodera, 2010
  • Bathydoris patagonica Kaiser, 1980
  • Bathydoris violacea Baranetz. 1993
  • Bathydoris vitjazi Minichev, 1969
• Prodoris Baranetz, 1997
  • Prodoris clavigera (Thiele, 1912)

References

1. Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P.; Frýda, J.; Hausdorf, B.; Ponder, W.; Valdes, A.; Warén, A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
2. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Hausdorf, Bernhard; Kaim, Andrzej; Kano, Yasunori; Nützel, Alexander; Parkhaev, Pavel; Schrödl, Michael; Strong, Ellen E. (December 2017). "Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of Gastropod and Monoplacophoran Families". Malacologia. 61 (1–2): 1–526. doi:10.4002/040.061.0201. ISSN   0076-2997.

Further reading

• 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.