Tylodina

Tylodina is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or false limpets in the family Tylodinidae.

Tylodina perversa
A live individual of Tylodina perversa, in situ, head uppermost in this image
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Euopisthobranchia
clade Umbraculida
Superfamily:
Umbraculoidea
Family:
Tylodinidae
Genus:
Tylodina

Species

Species within the genus Tylodina include:

  • Tylodina americana
  • Tylodina corticalis
  • Tylodina fungina- Observed solitary, in pairs and aggregating in small groups in reefs around San Clemente Island, the southernmost Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California July 2015.
  • Tylodina perversa

References
  1. Rafinesque C. S. (1814). Specchio Sci. 2(12): 162.
  • Data related to Tylodina at Wikispecies


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