Tethydidae is a family of dendronotid nudibranch gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Tritonioidea.[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 | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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Family: | Tethydidae Rafinesque, 1815
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Type genus | |
Tethys | |
Diversity[1] | |
2 genera 15 valid species and 3 doubtful species | |
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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: