Bathydorididae Explained

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

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)

Further reading

• Baranetz, Olga. The primitive nudibranchiate mollusc: Bathydoris violacea sp. n. (Gastropoda) (in Russian). Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta Seriya 3 Biologiya. 1993. 3. 13–18.
• Baranetz, O.N.. Variability of radular apparatus in Bathydorididae (Gastropoda, Doridida). Ruthenica. 1995. 5. 1. 71–72.
• Baranetz, O.N.. Variability of the respiratory apparatus in Bathydoris Bergh, 1884 (Gastropoda . Ruthenica. 1997. 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.

Notes and References

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. . ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278