Cylichnoides

Cylichnoides
Shell of Cylichnoides densistriatus (syntype at Swedish Museum of Natural History)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Cephalaspidea
Family: Eoscaphandridae
Genus: Cylichnoides
Minichev, 1977
Type species
† Bulla occulta Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842
Species

See text

Synonyms

Cylichna (Cylichnoides) Minichev, 1977 (original rank)

Cylichnoides is a genus of headshield slugs that belongs to the family Eosdaphandridae.

Members of this genus are widely distributed across boreal and arctic waters being found in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, northern Europe and Russia.

Taxonomy

This genus currently contains five described species. This genus traditionally contained the four species however specimens collected from the Kara Sea show that they form a monophyletic group. This group was described in 2026 as Cylichnoides karaensis.

Species belonging to this genus are listed below:

References

  1. 1 2 "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Cylichnoides Minichev, 1977". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2026-05-19.
  2. 1 2 3 "Cylichnoides Minichev, 1977". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2026-05-19.
  3. ↑ Elena Chaban, Dimitry Schepetov, Maria Stanovova, Natalia Zhuravliova, Alexei Mirolyubov, Irina Ekimova, Integrative analysis of gastropod molluscs of the genus Cylichnoides (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea: Eoscaphandridae) in boreal and Arctic seas, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 207, Issue 1, May 2026, zlag051, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlag051