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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: Euthyneura
Cohors: Ringipleura
Superordo: Nudipleura
Ordo: Nudibranchia
Subordo: Doridina
Infraordo: Bathydoridoidei
Superfamilia: Bathydoridoidea

Familia: Bathydorididae
Genera (2): Bathydoris – Doriodoxa – Prodoris
Name

Bathydorididae Bergh, 1891
Synonyms

Prodorididae Baranetz & Minichev, 1995

References

Primitive mantle complex of organs Bathydorididae (Gastropoda, Doridida).
Baranetz, O.N. 1995: Variability of radular apparatus in Bathydorididae (Gastropoda, Doridida). Ruthenica, 5(1): 71–75. abstract only seen

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Bathydorididae in the World Register of Marine Species

Bathydorididae is a taxonomic family of dorid nudibranch, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks.[1]

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)

References

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. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278

Further reading

Baranetz, Olga (1993). "The primitive nudibranchiate mollusc: Bathydoris violacea sp. n. (Gastropoda) (in Russian)". Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta Seriya 3 Biologiya. 3: 13–18.
Baranetz, O.N. (1995). "Variability of radular apparatus in Bathydorididae (Gastropoda, Doridida)". Ruthenica. 5 (1): 71–72.
Baranetz, O.N. (1997). "Variability of the respiratory apparatus in Bathydoris Bergh, 1884 (Gastropoda". Ruthenica. 7 (1): 61–64.
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.

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