Thylaeodus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells.MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Thylaeodus Mörch, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146458 on 2019-03-03
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