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sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

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gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

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family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

Vermetidae The Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells, are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. The shells of species in the family Vermetidae are extremely irregular, and do n ...

, the worm snails or worm shells. The species in this genus were previously placed in the genus ''Serpulorbis''. Unlike some other vermetids, the species in this genus have no operculum. Like other vermetids, the species in this genus do not have regular shell coiling like that of a typical

gastropod shell The gastropod shell is part of the body of many gastropods, including snails, a kind of mollusc. The shell is an exoskeleton, which protects from predators, mechanical damage, and dehydration, but also serves for muscle attachment and calcium ...

, instead they have shells which are irregular. They are usually cemented onto a hard surface. Because of all this, the shells resemble the calcareous tubes of worms in the

polychaete Polychaeta () is a paraphyletic class of generally marine Annelid, annelid worms, common name, commonly called bristle worms or polychaetes (). Each body segment has a pair of fleshy protrusions called parapodia that bear many bristles, called c ...

family

Serpulidae The Serpulidae are a family of sessile, tube-building annelid worms in the class Polychaeta. The members of this family differ from other sabellid tube worms in that they have a specialized operculum that blocks the entrance of their tubes w ...

Species

Species within the genus ''Thylacodes'' include: *'' Thylacodes adamsii'' ( Mörch, 1859) *'' Thylacodes aotearoicus'' (J. E. Morton, 1951) *''

Thylacodes arenarius ''Thylacodes arenarius'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells. Description Shells of ''T. arenarius'' are irregular, and can reach a length of about . The diameter of th ...

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Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

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) *'' Thylacodes aureus'' (Hughes, 1978) * '' Thylacodes borshenglyuhrurngae'' K.-Y. Lai, 2018 *'' Thylacodes capensis'' ( Thiele, 1925) *''

Thylacodes colubrinus ''Thylacodes colubrinus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage ...

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Thylacodes constrictor ''Thylacodes'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells. The species in this genus were previously placed in the genus ''Serpulorbis''. Unlike some other vermetids, the specie ...

'' ( Mörch, 1862) *''

Thylacodes daidai ''Thylacodes'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells. The species in this genus were previously placed in the genus ''Serpulorbis''. Unlike some other vermetids, the specie ...

'' (Scheuwimmer & Nishiwaki, 1982) *''

Thylacodes decussatus ''Thylacodes decussatus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vermetidae, commonly known as worm snails or worm shells. This species was formerly known as ''Serpulorbis decussatus''. Distribution Description T ...

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, 1791) *''

Thylacodes dentiferus ''Thylacodes'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells. The species in this genus were previously placed in the genus ''Serpulorbis''. Unlike some other vermetids, the specie ...

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Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...

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Thylacodes eruciformis ''Thylacodes'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells. The species in this genus were previously placed in the genus ''Serpulorbis''. Unlike some other vermetids, the specie ...

'' ( Mörch, 1862) *'' Thylacodes grandis'' (Gray, 1842) *'' Thylacodes hadfieldi'' (Kelly, 2007) *'' Thylacodes inopertus'' (Leuckart in Rüppell & Leuckart, 1828) *''

Thylacodes lamarckii ''Thylacodes'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells. The species in this genus were previously placed in the genus ''Serpulorbis''. Unlike some other vermetids, the species ...

'' (Vaillant, 1871) *'' Thylacodes longifilis'' ( Mörch, 1862) *'' Thylacodes lornensis'' (Marwick, 1926)

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*'' Thylacodes margaritaceus'' (Rousseau in Chenu, 1844) *''

Thylacodes masier ''Thylacodes masier'' is a species of sea snail, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells. Description Distribution References External links Deshayes, G. P.; Mil ...

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, 1843) *'' Thylacodes medusae'' (

Pilsbry Henry Augustus Pilsbry (7 December 1862 – 26 October 1957) was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study. He was a dominant presence in many fields of invertebrate taxonomy for the better part of a cent ...

, 1891) *'' Thylacodes megalostomus'' ( Mörch, 1865) *'' Thylacodes natalensis'' ( Mörch, 1862) *'' Thylacodes nodosorugosus'' ( Lischke, 1869) *'' Thylacodes novaehollandiae'' (Rousseau in Chenu, 1843) *'' Thylacodes ophioides'' (P. Marshall & R. Murdoch, 1921)

*'' Thylacodes oryzatus'' ( Mörch, 1862) *'' Thylacodes peronii'' (Rousseau in Chenu, 1844) *'' Thylacodes riisei'' ( Mörch, 1862) *'' Thylacodes roussaei'' (Vaillant, 1871) *'' Thylacodes sipho'' (

, 1818) *''

Thylacodes squamigerus ''Thylacodes squamigerus'', common name the scaled wormsnail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails. This species was previously known as ''Serpulorbis squamigerus''. This worm snail li ...

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, 1857) *'' Thylacodes squamolineatus'' (Petuch, 2002) *'' Thylacodes sutilis'' ( Mörch, 1862) *'' Thylacodes trimeresurus'' (Shikama & Horikoshi, 1963) *'' Thylacodes vandyensis'' (Bieler et al., 2017) Science News: 'Spiderman' worm-snails discovered on Florida shipwreck; Science Daily, 5 April 2017
/ref> *'' Thylacodes variabilis'' (Hadfield & Kay, 1972) *'' Thylacodes varidus'' (Okutani & Habe, 1975) *'' Thylacodes xenophorus'' (Habe, 1961) *'' Thylacodes yokojima'' (Shikama, 1977) *''

Thylacodes zelandicus ''Thylacodes zelandicus'' is a species of sea snail, a worm snail or worm shell, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Vermetidae The Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells, are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, ...

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Gaimard Joseph Paul Gaimard (31 January 1793 – 10 December 1858) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist. Biography Gaimard was born at Saint-Zacharie on January 31, 1793. He studied medicine at the naval medical school in Toulon, subsequent ...

, 1834) ;Synonyms: * '' Thylacodes angulatus'' (Rousseau in Chenu, 1844) = ''

Eualetes tulipa ''Eualetes tulipa'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells. Description ''E. tulipa'' is a marine gastropod species of the family Vermetidae, commonly known as "worm snails ...

'' (Rousseau in Chenu, 1843) * '' Thylacodes caperatus'' (Tate & May, 1900) = '' Petaloconchus caperatus'' (Tate & May, 1900) * ''

'' ( Mörch, 1859) = '' Thylacodes longifilis'' (Mörch, 1862) * '' Thylacodes effusus'' (Valenciennes in Chenu, 1844) = ''

'' (Rousseau in Chenu, 1843) * '' Thylacodes oryzata'' ( Mörch, 1862) = '' Thylacodes oryzatus'' (Mörch, 1862)

References

External links

Sasso, A. (1827). Saggio geologico sopra il Bacino terziario di Albenga. Giornale Ligustico di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 1(5): 467–484

Carpenter, P. P. (1857). Monograph of the shells collected by T. Nuttall, Esq., on the California coast, in the years 1834–5. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1856) 24: 209-220

http://www-gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/cgi-bin/digbib.cgi?PPN483932760

Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1828). Tulaxode, Tulaxoda. p. 40. in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 56. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris, & Le Normant, Paris

Gray, J. E. (1850). [text
In: Gray, M. E., Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp. (August) [Frontispiece (portrait of Mrs. Gray); pp. ii–iv (preface); 1–62 (explanation of plates 1–312 in Volumes 1–3); pp. 63–124 (systematic arrangement of figures); 127–219 (reprint of Gray 1847)]
Mörch, O. A. L. (1859). Étude sur la famille des vermets. Journal de Conchyliologie. 7: 342-360
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