Tylodina fungina

Tylodina fungina is a species of sea snail or false limpet, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Tylodinidae.

Tylodina fungina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Euopisthobranchia
clade Umbraculida
Superfamily:
Umbraculoidea
Family:
Tylodinidae
Genus:
Tylodina
Species:
T. fungina
Binomial name
Tylodina fungina
Gabb, 1865[1]

Ecology

Tylodina fungina feeds only on Aplysina gerardogreeni according to the in situ observations on the Pacific coast of Mexico.[2] It is specialized on this sponge.[2]

References
  1. Gabb W. M. (1865). "Description of new species of marine shells from the coast of California". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 3: 182-190.
  2. Verdín Padilla C. J., Carballo J. L. & Camacho M. L. (2010). "A qualitative assessment of sponge-feeding organisms from the Mexican Pacific Coast". Open Marine Biology Journal 4: 39–46. PDF Archived 2016-10-27 at the Wayback Machine


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