''Thylaeodus'' is a
genus
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of
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 ...
s,
marine gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the
family
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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.
[MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Thylaeodus Mörch, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146458 on 2019-03-03]
Species
Species within the genus ''Thylaeodus'' include:
* ''
Thylaeodus contortus''
(Carpenter, 1857)
* ''
Thylaeodus equatorialis''
Spotorno & Simone, 2013
* ''
Thylaeodus indentatus''
(Carpenter, 1857)
* ''
Thylaeodus rugulosus
''Thylaeodus rugulosus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vermetidae
The Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells, are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in ...
''
(Monterosato, 1878)
* ''
Thylaeodus semisurrectus
''Thylaeodus semisurrectus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vermetidae
The Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells, are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusc ...
''
(Bivona-Bernardi, 1832)
References
* Mörch
s Moerch O.A.L. (1860). Étude sur la famille des vermets (suite). Journal de Conchyliologie, 8: 27–48. [An offprint, reset and seamlessly combined with the previous article of same name (1859) has numbered pages 1–40.
External links
Bieler, R.; Petit, R. E. (2011). Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). Zootaxa. 2948, 1-103
Vermetidae
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