Tethydidae

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Tethydidae is a family of dendronotid nudibranch gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Dendronotoidea. The original spelling (subfamily) is Tethydia. It was placed on the Official List by Opinion 1182 of ICZN (1981: 174), which also ruled that the name should be corrected to Tethydidae (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Taxonomy

This family is within the clade Cladobranchia and has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Genera

There are two genera within the family Tethydidae:

Description

Species in this family do not possess a radula.

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