Tambja is a genus of colorful sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Polyceridae.
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.
Species
Species in the genus Tambja include:
- Tambja abdere <small>Farmer, 1978</small>
- Tambja affinis <small>Eliot, 1904</small>
- Tambja amitina <small>Bergh, 1905</small> nomen dubium
- Tambja anayana <small>Ortea, 1989</small>
- Tambja blacki <small>Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2006</small>
- Tambja brasiliensis <small>Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014</small>
- Tambja caeruleocirrus <small>Willan & Chang, 2017</small>
- Tambja capensis <small>Bergh, 1907</small>
- Tambja ceutae <small>Garcia-Gomez & Ortea, 1988</small>
- Tambja crioula <small>Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014</small>
- Tambja dracomus <small>Willan & Chang, 2017</small>
- Tambja diaphana <small>Bergh, 1877</small> - nomen dubium
- Tambja eliora <small>Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1967</small>
- Tambja fantasmalis <small>Ortea & GarcÃÂa-Gómez, 1986</small>
- Tambja gabrielae <small>Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005</small>
- Tambja gratiosa <small>Bergh, 1890</small>
- Tambja haidari <small>Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2006</small>
- Tambja kava <small>Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014</small>
- Tambja marbellensis <small>Schick & Cervera, 1998</small>
- Tambja morosa <small>Bergh, 1877</small>
- Tambja mullineri <small>Farmer, 1978</small>
- Tambja olivaria <small>Yonow, 1994</small>
- Tambja pulcherrima <small>Willan & Chang, 2017</small>
- Tambja sagamiana <small>Baba, 1955</small>
- Tambja simplex <small>Ortea & Moro, 1999</small>
- Tambja stegosauriformis <small>Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005</small>
- Tambja tenuilineata <small>Miller & Haagh, 2005</small>
- Tambja verconis <small>Basedow & Hedley, 1905</small> - type species
- Tambja victoriae <small>Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005</small>
- Tambja zulu <small>Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005</small>
Species brought into synonymy:
- Tambja divae <small>Er. Marcus, 1958</small>: synonym of Martadoris divae
- Tambja fusca <small>Farmer,1978</small>: synonym of Tambja abdere <small>Farmer, 1978</small>
- Tambja kushimotoensis <small>Baba, 1987</small>: synonym of Tambja morosa <small>Bergh, 1877</small>
- Tambja limaciformis <small>Eliot, 1908</small>: synonym of Martadoris limaciformis
- Tambja mediterranea <small>M. DomÃÂnguez, Pola & Ramón, 2015</small>: synonym of Martadoris mediterranea
- Tambja oliva <small>K. B. Meyer, 1977</small>: synonym of Martadoris oliva
- Tambja tentaculata <small>Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2005</small>: synonym of Roboastra tentaculata
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