Bathydorididae

Bathydorididae is a taxonomic family of dorid nudibranch, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks. Bathydorididae is the only family in the superfamily Bathydoridoidea, within the infraorder Bathydoridoidei.

Taxonomy

Genera in the family Bathydorididae include:

• Bathydoris <small>Bergh, 1884</small> (type genus) (these nudibranchs live in deep water, below 1,500 m)
• Bathydoris abyssorum <small>Bergh, 1884</small> (type species)
• Bathydoris aioca <small>Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1962</small>
• Bathydoris antoni <small>Ekimova, Á. Valdés, Stanovova, Mikhlina, Antokhina, Neretina, Chichvarkhina & Schepetov, 2021</small>
• Bathydoris hodgsoni <small>Eliot, 1907</small>
• Bathydoris ingolfiana <small>Bergh, 1899</small>
• Bathydoris japonensis <small>Hamatani & Kubodera, 2010</small>
• Bathydoris spiralis <small>Á. Valdés, 2002</small>

• Prodoris <small>Baranetz, 1997</small>
• Prodoris clavigera <small>(Thiele, 1912)</small>

References

Further reading

• 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.