Bathydorididae

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title: "Bathydorididae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["nudibranchia", "gastropod-families"] description: "Family of gastropods" topic_path: "general/nudibranchia" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathydorididae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Family of gastropods ::

| image = Bathydoris nudibranch.png | image_caption = A species of Bathydoris nudibranch | display_parents = 3 | grandparent_authority = Minichev & Starobogatov, 1979 | parent_authority = Bergh, 1891 | taxon = Bathydorididae | authority = Bergh, 1891 | type_genus = Bathydoris | type_genus_authority = Bergh, 1884 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text | synonyms = Prodorididae Baranetz & Minichev, 1995

Bathydorididae is a taxonomic family of dorid nudibranch, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks. Bathydorididae is the only family in the superfamily Bathydoridoidea, within the infraorder Bathydoridoidei.

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 Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1962
  • Bathydoris antoni Ekimova, Á. Valdés, Stanovova, Mikhlina, Antokhina, Neretina, Chichvarkhina & Schepetov, 2021
  • Bathydoris hodgsoni Eliot, 1907
  • Bathydoris ingolfiana Bergh, 1899
  • Bathydoris japonensis Hamatani & Kubodera, 2010
  • Bathydoris spiralis Á. Valdés, 2002

• Prodoris Baranetz, 1997

  • Prodoris clavigera (Thiele, 1912)

References

References

1. Bouchet, P.. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". ConchBooks.
2. Bouchet, Philippe. (December 2017). "Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of Gastropod and Monoplacophoran Families". Malacologia.
3. "Bathydorididae".

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