Thylaeodus Explained

Thylaeodus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells.^[1]

Species

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

• 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. ==External links== * [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02948p103.pdf 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]

Notes and References

1. 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