Tergipes

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Tergipes
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The nudibranch Tergipes tergipes, Gulen Dive Centre, Norway.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Tergipedidae
Genus: Tergipes
Cuvier, 1805 [1]

Tergipes is a genus of sea slugs, specifically aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tergipedidae. [2] Tergipes is the type genus of the family Tergipedidae. [3]

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Species

Species within the genus Tergipes include:

Species names currently considered to be synonyms:

Ecology

Species of Tergipes feed on hydroids, as reflected by the serrated radula. [5] A recent study showed that Tergipes tergipes is an amphi-atlantic species. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Cuvier, G. L. C. F. D. (1805). Mémoire sur la Scyllee, l'Eolide et le Glaucus, avec des additions au mémoire sur la Tritonie. Annales de Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 6:416-436, pl. 61.
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Tergipes Cuvier, 1805. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2014-12-10
  3. ↑ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  4. ↑ Schrödl, M. 2003. Sea slugs of southern South America. ConchBooks, Hackenheim.
  5. ↑ Walter J. Lambert (1991). "Coexistence of hydroid eating nudibranchs: do feeding biology and habitat use matter?". Biological Bulletin . 181 (2): 248–260. doi:10.2307/1542096. JSTOR   1542096. PMID   29304644.
  6. ↑ Cámara, S., Carmona, L., Cella, K., Ekimova, I., Martynov, A., & Cervera, J. L., (2014). Tergipes tergipes (Förskal, 1775) (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) is an amphiatlantic species. Journal of Molluscan Studies (2014) 80: 642–646. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyu015
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