Tambja

Tambja is a genus of colorful sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Polyceridae.^[2]

Tambja
Tambja sagamiana in Sukumo Bay, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan, head end towards the right
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Superfamily:	Polyceroidea
Family:	Polyceridae
Subfamily:	Nembrothinae
Genus:	Tambja Burn, 1962[1]

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.^[3]

Species

Species in the genus Tambja include:^[4]

• Tambja abdere Farmer, 1978 - synonym: Tambja fusca^[5]
• 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^[6]
• 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)^[7] - 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^[8]
• 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,^[9] and T. oliva Meyer, 1977 have been placed in the new genus Martadoris.^[10]