Tambja is a genus of colorful sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Polyceridae.
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.
Species
Species in the genus Tambja include:
Tambja abdere Farmer, 1978 - synonym: Tambja fusca
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 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) - 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 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, and T. oliva Meyer, 1977 have been placed in the new genus Martadoris.