Tambja genus of colorful sea slugs , dorid nudibranchs , shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Polyceridae.
These nudibranchs feed on bryozoa. 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 in the genus Tambja include:
Tambja abdere Farmer, 1978 - synonym: Tambja fusca Tambja affinis (Eliot, 1904)Tambja amakusana Baba , 1987Tambja amitina (Bergh , 1905)Tambja anayana Ortea, 1989Tambja blacki Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2006Tambja brasiliensis (Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014) Tambja capensis (Bergh , 1907)Tambja ceutae Garcia-Gomez & Ortea, 1988Tambja diaphana (Bergh, 1877) - nomen dubiumTambja divae (Marcus, 1958)Tambja eliora (Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1967)Tambja fantasmalis Ortea & García-Gómez, 1986Tambja gabrielae Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005Tambja gratiosa (Bergh, 1890) - synonym: Roboastra gratiosa (Bergh, 1890)Tambja haidari Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2006Tambja limaciformis (Eliot, 1908)Tambja marbellensis (Schick & Cervera, 1998)Tambja mediterranea Domínguez, Pola & Ramón, 2015Tambja morosa (Bergh, 1877) - synonym: Tambja kushimotoensis Baba , 1987Tambja mullineri Farmer, 1978Tambja oliva Meyer, 1977Tambja olivaria Yonow, 1994Tambja sagamiana (Baba, 1955)Tambja simplex Ortea & Moro, 1999Tambja stegosauriformis Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005Tambja tentaculata Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005Tambja tenuilineata Miller & Haagh, 2005Tambja verconis (Basedow & Hedley, 1905) - type speciesTambja victoriae Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005Tambja zulu Pola, Cervera, & Gosliner, 2005
