Thylaeodus

Thylaeodus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Vermetidae
Genus:	Thylaeodus Mörch, 1860
Type species
Bivonia contorta Carpenter, 1857

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

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

• 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