Thylacodes sipho

Thylacodes sipho the common worm-shell is a species of sea snail, a worm shell, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails.

common worm-shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Vermetoidea
Family:
Vermetidae
Genus:
Thylacodes
Species:
T. sipho
Binomial name
Thylacodes sipho
(Lamarck 1818)
Synonyms
  • Vermetus decussatus Gmelin, 1791
  • Serpula sipho Lamarck, 1818
  • Serpula sulcata Lamarck, 1818
  • Vermetus dentiferus Lamarck, 1818
  • Vermetus arenarius Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
  • Thylacodes dentiferus repens Mörch, 1862
  • Vermetus longifilis Mörch, 1862

Distribution

Endemic to Australia, found in all coastal states, more common in the south. The habitat is subtidal exposed reefs and rock platforms.

Description

Living in an irregularly coiled shell, up to 70 mm long, with a tube diameter of 4 to 10 mm. The early whorls of the shell are attached to a substrate such as rocks or shells, sometimes in aggregated groups. Feeding is on organic matter, trapped in strings of mucous, there is no operculum.[1][2][3][4]

References
  1. "Thylacodes sipho". The Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  2. "Thylacodes sipho". Molluscs of Tasmania. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  3. "Thylacodes sipho". Solitary Islands Underwater Research Group, Inc. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  4. "Thylacodes sipho". Sea Shells of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  • Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910.
  • Quoy, J.R. & Gaimard, J.P. 1834. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1829. Paris : J. Tastu Zoologie Vol. 3 366 pp.
  • Mörch, O.A.L. 1862. Review of the Vermetidae [Part 1]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1862: 54-83
  • Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471
  • Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp.
  • Hedley, C. 1916. A preliminary index of the Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 1: 152-226
  • Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109
  • Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
  • 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


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