Subfamily Okadaiinae Baba, 1930

Family Vayssiereidae. Vayssierea caledonica. (from Beesley, Ross & Wells 1998) [S. Weidland]

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Regional Maps

• Okadaiidae Baba, 1930.
• Vayssiereidae Thiele, 1931.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Canet-Miralda, C. & Moles, J. 2024. Exploring the intriguing arrival of Vayssierea Risbec, 1928 slugs in the Atlantic Ocean from the Indo-Pacific (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). Marine Biology 171:186: 16 pp. [185]

Introduction

A family of probably the one very small species, described and named several times from widespread localities. The body is very small, slender, with smooth rhinophores. There are no gills. Always found in association with serpulid polychaetes, the calcareous tubes of which it bores to access the retracted worm, which it then proceeds to eat.

[Compiled from Burn (in press 2012), as Okadaiidae Baba, 1930]

General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds) 1998. Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234. [997]

Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42

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