African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Tethydidae Rafinesque, 1815

WoRMS taxon details

Tethydidae Rafinesque, 1815

AphiaID

23125 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:23125)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Dendronotoidea Allman, 1845

Synonymised names

Fimbriidae O'Donoghue, 1926 · unaccepted (invalid: type genus a junior homonym)

Melibidae Forbes, 1844 · unaccepted

Tethymelibidae Bergh, 1890 · unaccepted (not available: not based on a genus)

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Genus Melibe Rang, 1829
Genus Tethys Linnaeus, 1767
Genus Chioraera A. Gould, 1852 accepted as Melibe Rang, 1829
Genus Fimbria O'Donoghue, 1926 accepted as Tethys Linnaeus, 1767 (invalid: junior homonym of Fimbria Megerle, 1811.)
Genus Jacunia de Filippi, 1867 accepted as Melibe Rang, 1829
Genus Meliboea [sic] accepted as Melibe Rang, 1829 (incorrect subsequent spelling [by Forbes, 1838] of Melibe Rang, 1829)
Genus Propemelibe J. K. Allan, 1932 accepted as Melibe Rang, 1829
Genus Tethys Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Tethys Linnaeus, 1767 (unaccepted > unavailable name, Placed by Opinion 200 on the Official List of Rejected and Invalid Names)

Environment

marine

Original description

Not documented

Descriptive notes

Nomenclature Original spelling (subfamily) Tethydia. Placed on the Official List by Opinion 1182 of ICZN (1981: 174), which also ruled...

Nomenclature Original spelling (subfamily) Tethydia. 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) [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tethydidae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23125 on 2025-04-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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db_admin

2006-03-22 08:02:13Z

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Wambiji, Nina

2009-08-14 09:49:04Z

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2011-05-05 18:31:09Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2017-10-30 23:19:26Z

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Picton, Bernard

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Nomenclature

original description (of Melibidae Forbes, 1844) Forbes E. (1844). Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on geology. Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1843. 130-193., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12920789
page(s): 186; note: as Melibœadae [details]

basis of record Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25127200 [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomy

taxonomy source Goodheart, J. A.; Bazinet, A. L.; Valdés, Á.; Collins, A. G.; Cummings, M. P. (2017). Prey preference follows phylogeny: evolutionary dietary patterns within the marine gastropod group Cladobranchia (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17(1)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1066-0 [details]

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Language	Name
Japanese	メリベウミウシ科	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Fimbriidae) (from synonym Fimbriidae O'Donoghue, 1926)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tethydidae)
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