Tambja
Genus of gastropods
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Tambja is a genus of colorful sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Polyceridae.[2]
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| Tambja sagamiana in Sukumo Bay, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan, head end towards the right | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Family: | Polyceridae |
| Subfamily: | Nembrothinae |
| Genus: | Tambja Burn, 1962[1] |
Biology
Species
Species in the genus Tambja include:[4][2]
- Tambja abdere Farmer, 1978
- 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[5]
- 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
- Tambja haidari Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2006
- Tambja kava Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014
- Tambja marbellensis Schick & Cervera, 1998
- Tambja morosa Bergh, 1877
- 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[6]
- Tambja tenuilineata Miller & Haagh, 2005
- Tambja verconis Basedow & Hedley, 1905 - type species
- Tambja victoriae Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
- Tambja zulu Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
Species brought into synonymy:
- Tambja amakusana Babab,1987: Martadoris amakusana[7]
- Tambja divae Er. Marcus, 1958: synonym of Martadoris divae
- Tambja fusca Farmer,1978: synonym of Tambja abdere[8] Farmer, 1978
- Tambja kushimotoensis Baba, 1987: synonym of Tambja morosa Bergh, 1877
- Tambja limaciformis Eliot, 1908: synonym of Martadoris limaciformis
- Tambja mediterranea M. Domínguez, Pola & Ramón, 2015: synonym of Martadoris mediterranea
- Tambja oliva K. B. Meyer, 1977: synonym of Martadoris oliva
- Tambja tentaculata Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2005: synonym of Roboastra tentaculata
