Thylacodes

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Thylacodes
Serpulorbis squamigerus.jpg
A view of the shell of a single live Thylacodes squamigerus
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Thylacodes[1]

Guettard, 1770

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.[2]

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, 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 family Serpulidae.

Species[]

Species within the genus Thylacodes include:

Synonyms
  • (Rousseau in Chenu, 1844) = Eualetes tulipa (Rousseau in Chenu, 1843)
  • (Tate & May, 1900) = (Tate & May, 1900)
  • (Mörch, 1859) = (Mörch, 1862)
  • (Valenciennes in Chenu, 1844) = Eualetes tulipa (Rousseau in Chenu, 1843)
  • (Mörch, 1862) = (Mörch, 1862)

References[]

  1. ^ Bieler, R.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Thylacodes Guettard, 1770. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598651 on 2015-07-17
  2. ^ Bieler, R.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Thylacodes Guettard, 1770. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598651 on 2015-07-17
  3. ^ Rüdiger Bieler, Camila Granados-Cifuentes, Timothy A. Rawlings, Petra Sierwald, Timothy M. Collins. Non-native molluscan colonizers on deliberately placed shipwrecks in the Florida Keys, with description of a new species of potentially invasive worm-snail (Gastropoda: Vermetidae). PeerJ, 2017; 5: e3158 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3158
  4. ^ Science News: 'Spiderman' worm-snails discovered on Florida shipwreck; Science Daily, 5 April 2017

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