Tambja Explained
Tambja is a genus of colorful sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Polyceridae.[1]
Biology
These nudibranchs feed on bryozoans. They have a radula which bears a rachidian tooth whose upper margin is either smooth or notched; the lateral tooth has two crowns, and the other teeth are so flat as to resemble plates.[2]
Species
Species in the genus Tambja include:[3]
- Tambja abdere Farmer, 1978 - synonym: Tambja fusca[4]
- Tambja affinis (Eliot, 1904)
- Tambja amitina (Bergh, 1905) nomen dubium
- Tambja anayana Ortea, 1989
- Tambja blacki Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2006
- Tambja brasiliensis Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014[5]
- Tambja caeruleocirrus Willan & Chang, 2017
- Tambja capensis (Bergh, 1907)
- Tambja ceutae Garcia-Gomez & Ortea, 1988
- Tambja crioula Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014
- Tambja dracomus Willan & Chang, 2017
- Tambja diaphana (Bergh, 1877) - nomen dubium
- Tambja eliora (Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1967)
- Tambja fantasmalis Ortea & García-Gómez, 1986
- Tambja gabrielae Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
- Tambja gratiosa (Bergh, 1890)[6] - synonym: Roboastra gratiosa (Bergh, 1890)
- Tambja haidari Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2006
- Tambja kava Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014
- Tambja marbellensis (Schick & Cervera, 1998)
- Tambja morosa (Bergh, 1877) - synonym: Tambja kushimotoensis Baba, 1987
- Tambja mullineri Farmer, 1978
- Tambja olivaria Yonow, 1994
- Tambja pulcherrima Willan & Chang, 2017
- Tambja sagamiana (Baba, 1955)
- Tambja simplex Ortea & Moro, 1999
- Tambja stegosauriformis Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005[7]
- Tambja tenuilineata Miller & Haagh, 2005
- Tambja verconis (Basedow & Hedley, 1905) - type species
- Tambja victoriae Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
- Tambja zulu Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
The nominal species Tambja amakusana Baba, 1987, T. mediterranea Domínguez, Pola & Ramón, 2015,[8] and T. oliva Meyer, 1977 have been placed in the new genus Martadoris.[9]
Notes and References
- MolluscaBase (2018). Tambja Burn, 1962. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2018-08-20.
- Pola . M. . Cervera . J. L. . Gosliner . T. M. . Description of two new phanerobranch nembrothid species (Nudibranchia: Polyceridae: Doridacea) . Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK . 86 . 2 . 403 . 2006 . 10.1017/S0025315406013269.
- Web site: The Sea Slug Forum - Home. 2006-01-09.
- Pola M., Valles Y., Cervera J. L., Medina M. & Gosliner T. M. (2006). "Taxonomic status of Tambja abdere and T. fusca based on morphological and molecular evidence, with comments on the phylogeny of the subfamily Nembrothinae (Nudibranchia, Polyceridae)". Annales Zoologici Fenici 43: 52-64. PDF.
- Pola. Marta. Padula. Vinicius. Gosliner. Terrence M.. Cervera. Juan Lucas. 2014-12-01. Going further on an intricate and challenging group of nudibranchs: description of five novel species and a more complete molecular phylogeny of the subfamily Nembrothinae (Polyceridae). Cladistics. en. 30. 6. 607–634. 10.1111/cla.12097. 1096-0031. free.
- Bergh, L. S. R. (1890). Report on the nudibranchs. Report on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-1878) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-1880), by the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lleut.-Commander C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. 19(3)(3), 155-181 Pls.1-3. [172-5, Pl.2 figs 1-5. Pl.3 figs 1-4]
- Pola P. M., Cervera J. L. & Gosliner T. M. (2005). "A new species of Tambja (Nudibranchia: Polyceridae: Nembrothinae)". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 85(4): 979-984. PDF.
- Domínguez M., Pola M. & Ramón M. (2015) "A new species of Tambja (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia) from the Mediterranean Sea: description of the first species of the genus from the Balearic Islands and Malta". Helgoland Marine Research 69: 429. .
- Willan R.C. & Chang Y.-W. [Yen-Wei]. (2017). Description of three new species of Tambja (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia, Polyceridae) from the western Pacific Ocean reveals morphological characters with taxonomic and phylogenetic significance for traditional Polyceridae and related 'phaneorobranch' nudibranchs. Basteria. 81(1-3): 1-23.
