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.[1]
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| A view of the shell of a single live Thylacodes squamigerus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Vermetoidea |
| Family: | Vermetidae |
| Genus: | Thylacodes Guettard, 1770 |
| Type species | |
| Serpulorbis polyphragma Sasso, 1827 | |
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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 edit
Species within the genus Thylacodes include:
- Thylacodes adamsii (Mörch, 1859)
- Thylacodes aotearoicus (J. E. Morton, 1951)
- Thylacodes arenarius (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Thylacodes aureus (Hughes, 1978)
- Thylacodes borshenglyuhrurngae K.-Y. Lai, 2018
- Thylacodes capensis (Thiele, 1925)
- Thylacodes colubrinus (Röding, 1798)
- Thylacodes constrictor (Mörch, 1862)
- Thylacodes daidai (Scheuwimmer & Nishiwaki, 1982)
- Thylacodes decussatus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Thylacodes dentiferus (Lamarck, 1818)
- Thylacodes eruciformis (Mörch, 1862)
- Thylacodes grandis (Gray, 1842)
- Thylacodes hadfieldi (Kelly, 2007)
- Thylacodes inopertus (Leuckart in Rüppell & Leuckart, 1828)
- Thylacodes lamarckii (Vaillant, 1871)
- Thylacodes longifilis (Mörch, 1862)
- Thylacodes lornensis (Marwick, 1926) †
- Thylacodes margaritaceus (Rousseau in Chenu, 1844)
- Thylacodes masier (Deshayes, 1843)
- Thylacodes medusae (Pilsbry, 1891)
- Thylacodes megalostomus (Mörch, 1865)
- Thylacodes natalensis (Mörch, 1862)
- Thylacodes nodosorugosus (Lischke, 1869)
- Thylacodes novaehollandiae (Rousseau in Chenu, 1843)
- Thylacodes ophioides (P. Marshall & R. Murdoch, 1921) †
- Thylacodes oryzatus (Mörch, 1862)
- Thylacodes peronii (Rousseau in Chenu, 1844)
- Thylacodes riisei (Mörch, 1862)
- Thylacodes roussaei (Vaillant, 1871)
- Thylacodes sipho (Lamarck, 1818)
- Thylacodes squamigerus (Carpenter, 1857)
- Thylacodes squamolineatus (Petuch, 2002)
- Thylacodes sutilis (Mörch, 1862)
- Thylacodes trimeresurus (Shikama & Horikoshi, 1963)
- Thylacodes vandyensis (Bieler et al., 2017) [2][3]
- Thylacodes variabilis (Hadfield & Kay, 1972)
- Thylacodes varidus (Okutani & Habe, 1975)
- Thylacodes xenophorus (Habe, 1961)
- Thylacodes yokojima (Shikama, 1977)
- Thylacodes zelandicus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
- Synonyms
- Thylacodes angulatus (Rousseau in Chenu, 1844) = Eualetes tulipa (Rousseau in Chenu, 1843)
- Thylacodes caperatus (Tate & May, 1900) = Petaloconchus caperatus (Tate & May, 1900)
- Thylacodes dentiferus (Mörch, 1859) = Thylacodes longifilis (Mörch, 1862)
- Thylacodes effusus (Valenciennes in Chenu, 1844) = Eualetes tulipa (Rousseau in Chenu, 1843)
- Thylacodes oryzata (Mörch, 1862) = Thylacodes oryzatus (Mörch, 1862)
References edit
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Science News: 'Spiderman' worm-snails discovered on Florida shipwreck; Science Daily, 5 April 2017
External links edit
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- Sasso, A. (1827). Saggio geologico sopra il Bacino terziario di Albenga. Giornale Ligustico di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 1(5): 467–484
- Carpenter, P. P. (1857). Monograph of the shells collected by T. Nuttall, Esq., on the California coast, in the years 1834–5. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1856) 24: 209-220
- http://www-gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/cgi-bin/digbib.cgi?PPN483932760
- Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1828). Tulaxode, Tulaxoda. p. 40. in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 56. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris, & Le Normant, Paris
- Gray, J. E. (1850). [text. In: Gray, M. E., Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp. (August) [Frontispiece (portrait of Mrs. Gray); pp. ii–iv (preface); 1–62 (explanation of plates 1–312 in Volumes 1–3); pp. 63–124 (systematic arrangement of figures); 127–219 (reprint of Gray 1847)]
- Mörch, O. A. L. (1859). Étude sur la famille des vermets. Journal de Conchyliologie. 7: 342-360