Bathydorididae

Bathydorididae is a taxonomic family of dorid nudibranch, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks.^[1] Bathydorididae is the only family in the superfamily Bathydoridoidea, within the infraorder Bathydoridoidei.^[2]

Bathydorididae
A species of Bathydoris nudibranch
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Suborder:	Doridina
Infraorder:	Bathydoridoidei Minichev & Starobogatov, 1979
Superfamily:	Bathydoridoidea Bergh, 1891
Family:	Bathydorididae Bergh, 1891
Type genus
Bathydoris Bergh, 1884
Genera
See text
Synonyms
Prodorididae Baranetz & Minichev, 1995

Taxonomy

Genera in the family Bathydorididae include:^[3]

• 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)