Thylaeodus
| Thylaeodus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Vermetidae |
| Genus: | Thylaeodus Mörch, 1860 |
| Type species | |
| Bivonia contorta Carpenter, 1857
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Thylaeodus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells.[1]
Species
[edit]Species within the genus Thylaeodus include:
- Thylaeodus contortus (Carpenter, 1857)
- Thylaeodus equatorialis Spotorno & Simone, 2013
- Thylaeodus indentatus (Carpenter, 1857)
- Thylaeodus rugulosus (Monterosato, 1878)
- Thylaeodus semisurrectus (Bivona-Bernardi, 1832)
References
[edit]- ^ 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
- Mörch [as 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.