Tectibranchia Cuvier, 1814, also spelled as Tectibranchiata,[1] was previously used as a taxonomic order, or suborder, of gastropods in which the gills are usually situated on one side of the back, and protected by a fold of the mantle.[2] When there is a shell, it is usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary.[2]
Tectibranchia has been firstly used as an order with vernacular name "Tectibranches" by Georges Cuvier in 1814 to include "les Pleurobranches", "les Pleurobranchaea" and "les Aplisiés ...".[3][4] That covered bubble shells[2] and the modern families Pleurobranchidae and Aplysiidae.
Thomas Edward Bowdich (1822)[5] Latinized the term as Tectibranchi.[4]
See also
edit- Pomatobranchiata Schweigger, 1820 - similar taxon name for an approximately similar group of gastropods, but this term is also not used in recent classification.[4]
- Architectibranchia Haszprunar, 1985 - taxon with similar name
References
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- ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1895). Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Polyplacophora, (Chitons.) Acanthochitidae, Cryptoplacidae and appendix. Tectibranchiata. volume 15.
- ^ a b c d Gofas, S. (2010). Tectibranchiata. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181509 on 2010-12-29
- ^ Cuvier G. In: Blainville H. M. D. d. (1814). "Mémoire sur la classification méthodique des animaux mollusques, et établissement d'une nouvelle considération pour y parvenir". Bulletin des Sciences par la Société Philomatique des Paris, Zoologie (1814): 175-180. page 178.
- ^ a b c Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ Bowdich T. E. (1822). Elements of Conchology including the fossil genera and the animals. Part 1, Univalves. Treuttel & Würtz, London, 83 pp + plates captions. page 60.