Bathydorididae

Bathydorididae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea

clade Gnathodoridacea
Superfamily:
Bathydoridoidea

Bergh, 1891
Family:
Bathydorididae

Bergh, 1891
Genera

See text.

Synonyms

Prodorididae Baranetz & Minichev, 1995

A species of Bathydoris nudibranch

Bathydorididae is a taxonomic family of dorid nudibranch, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks.

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)