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)

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.