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Tambja is a genus of colorful sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Polyceridae.




Biology


These nudibranchs feed on bryozoans. They have a radula which bears a rachidian tooth whose upper margin is either smooth or notched; the lateral tooth has two crowns, and the other teeth are so flat as to resemble plates.




Species


Species in the genus Tambja include:

Tambja abdere Farmer, 1978 - synonym: Tambja fusca
Tambja affinis (Eliot, 1904)
Tambja amitina (Bergh, 1905) nomen dubium
Tambja anayana Ortea, 1989
Tambja blacki Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2006
Tambja brasiliensis Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014
Tambja caeruleocirrus Willan & Chang, 2017
Tambja capensis (Bergh, 1907)
Tambja ceutae Garcia-Gomez & Ortea, 1988
Tambja crioula Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014
Tambja dracomus Willan & Chang, 2017
Tambja diaphana (Bergh, 1877) - nomen dubium
Tambja eliora (Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1967)
Tambja fantasmalis Ortea & García-Gómez, 1986
Tambja gabrielae Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
Tambja gratiosa (Bergh, 1890) - synonym: Roboastra gratiosa (Bergh, 1890)
Tambja haidari Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2006
Tambja kava Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014
Tambja marbellensis (Schick & Cervera, 1998)
Tambja morosa (Bergh, 1877) - synonym: Tambja kushimotoensis Baba, 1987
Tambja mullineri Farmer, 1978
Tambja olivaria Yonow, 1994
Tambja pulcherrima Willan & Chang, 2017
Tambja sagamiana (Baba, 1955)
Tambja simplex Ortea & Moro, 1999
Tambja stegosauriformis Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
Tambja tenuilineata Miller & Haagh, 2005
Tambja verconis (Basedow & Hedley, 1905) - type species
Tambja victoriae Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
Tambja zulu Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
The nominal species Tambja amakusana Baba, 1987, T. mediterranea Domínguez, Pola & Ramón, 2015, and T. oliva Meyer, 1977 have been placed in the new genus Martadoris.




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Tambja
• Tambja morosa
• Tambja verconis
• Tambja dracomus
• Tambja anayana
• Tambja tenuilineata
• Tambja sagamiana
• Tambja crioula
• Tambja diaphana
• Tambja gabrielae