''Thylaeodus'' is a
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sea snail
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s,
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gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the
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Vermetidae
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, 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''
(Monterosato, 1878)
* ''
Thylaeodus semisurrectus''
(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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