Bathydorididae is a taxonomic family of dorid nudibranch, shell-less marine gastropod .[Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdes A. & Warén A. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. . ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278]
Bathydorididae is the only family in the superfamily Bathydoridoidea, within the clade Gnathodoridacea.
Taxonomy
Genera in the family Bathydorididae include:
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Bathydoris Bergh, 1884 - type genus. These nudibranchs live in deep water, below 1,500 m.
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Bathydoris abyssorum Bergh, 1884 (type species)
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Bathydoris aioca Marcus & Marcus, 1962
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Bathydoris clavigera Thiele, 1912 (synonym : Prodoris clavigera)
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Bathydoris hodgsoni Eliot, 1907
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Bathydoris ingolfiana Bergh, 1900
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Bathydoris japonensis Hamatani & Kubodera, 2010
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Bathydoris patagonica Kaiser, 1980
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Bathydoris violacea Baranetz. 1993
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Bathydoris vitjazi Minichev, 1969
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Prodoris Baranetz, 1997
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Prodoris clavigera (Thiele, 1912)
Further reading
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Belick, Francis P. 1975 Additional opisthobranch mollusks from Oregon. The Veliger 17 (3): 276-277.
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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.
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Lance, James R. 1967. The holotype of the abyssal dorid nudibranch Bathydoris aoica Marcus & Marcus, 1962. The Veliger 9 (4) 410.
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Marcus, Ev. & Er. Marcus. 1962. A new species of the Gnathodoridacea. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 34: 269-275.
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Valdés, Ángel, and Hans Bertsch. 2000. Redescription and range extension of Bathydoris aioca Marcus & Marcus, 1962 (Nudibranchia: Gnathodoridoidea). The Veliger 43 (2): 172-178.
