Tylodina perversa

Tylodina perversa
A live individual of Tylodina perversa, head end towards the top
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Euopisthobranchia clade Umbraculida
Superfamily:	Umbraculoidea
Family:	Tylodinidae
Genus:	Tylodina
Species:	T. perversa
Binomial name
Tylodina perversa (Gmelin, 1791)

Tylodina perversa, common names the "yellow tylodina" or "yellow umbrella slug", is a species of sea snail or false limpet, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Tylodinidae.

This opisthobranch has a limpet-like shell which is composed primarily of protein, not calcium carbonate.

Distribution[]

This species of false limpet occurs in the northeastern Atlantic including the British Isles and the Mediterranean Sea.

Ecology[]

T. perversa feeds on the sponge species Aplysina aerophoba.

References[]

• Sea Slug Forum info

External links[]

• Photos of Tylodina perversa on Sealife Collection

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