Tambja
| Tambja | |
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| Tambja sagamiana in Sukumo Bay, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan, head end towards the right | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Family: | Polyceridae |
| Subfamily: | Nembrothinae |
| Genus: | TambjaBurn, 1962[1] |
Tambja is a genus of colorful sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marinegastropodmollusks in the family Polyceridae.[2]
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.[3]
Species
Species in the genus Tambja include:[4][2]
- Tambja abdereFarmer, 1978
- Tambja affinis(Eliot, 1904)
- Tambja amitina(Bergh, 1905) - nomen dubium
- Tambja anayanaOrtea, 1989
- Tambja blackiPola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2006
- Tambja brasiliensisPola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014[5]
- Tambja caeruleocirrusWillan & Chang, 2017
- Tambja capensis(Bergh, 1907)
- Tambja ceutaeGarcia-Gomez & Ortea, 1988
- Tambja crioulaPola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014
- Tambja dracomusWillan & Chang, 2017
- Tambja diaphana(Bergh, 1877) - nomen dubium
- Tambja eliora(Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1967)
- Tambja fantasmalisOrtea & García-Gómez, 1986
- Tambja gabrielaePola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
- Tambja gratiosa(Bergh, 1890)
- Tambja haidariPola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2006
- Tambja kavaPola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014
- Tambja marbellensisSchick & Cervera, 1998
- Tambja morosa(Bergh, 1877)
- Tambja mullineriFarmer, 1978
- Tambja olivariaYonow, 1994
- Tambja pulcherrimaWillan & Chang, 2017
- Tambja sagamiana(Baba, 1955)
- Tambja simplexOrtea & Moro, 1999
- Tambja stegosauriformisPola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005[6]
- Tambja tenuilineataMiller & Haagh, 2005
- Tambja verconis(Basedow & Hedley, 1905) - type species
- Tambja victoriaePola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
- Tambja zuluPola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
Species brought into synonymy:
- Tambja amakusanaBaba,1987: Martadoris amakusana[7](Baba,1987)
- Tambja divae(Er. Marcus, 1958): synonym of Martadoris divae(Er. Marcus, 1958)
- Tambja fuscaFarmer,1978: synonym of Tambja abdere[8]Farmer, 1978
- Tambja kushimotoensisBaba, 1987: synonym of Tambja morosa(Bergh, 1877)
- Tambja limaciformis(Eliot, 1908): synonym of Martadoris limaciformis(Eliot, 1908)
- Tambja mediterraneaM. Domínguez, Pola & Ramón, 2015: synonym of Martadoris mediterranea(M. Domínguez, Pola & Ramón, 2015)
- Tambja olivaK. B. Meyer, 1977: synonym of Martadoris oliva(K. B. Meyer, 1977)
- Tambja tentaculataPola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2005: synonym of Roboastra tentaculata(Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2005)