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Thylacodes natalensis Mörch, 1862 
AphiaID: 709527

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Vermetoidea (Superfamily) > Vermetidae (Family) > Thylacodes (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Thylacodes Guettard, 1770
Synonymised
taxa		  Serpulorbis natalensis (Mörch, 1862)
Sources  original description: Mörch, O.A.L. (1862b). Review of the Vermetidae (Part III.). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1862, 54–83. [June 1862]
page(s): 70-71 [details]

additional source: Bieler, R. & R. E. Petit, 2011, Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). Zootaxa, 2948, 1-103. , available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02948p103.pdf
page(s): 49 [details]

from synonym: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
page(s): 52 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.
page(s): 36 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Kelly W.C. (2007) Three new vermetid gastropod species from Guam. Micronesica 39(2): 117–140. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English solitary worm shell (from synonym)  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution East Coast of South Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
South Coast of South Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:709527
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2012-11-04 21:19:21Z  created  Bieler, Rudiger
  
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  Citation: Bieler, R. (2013). Thylacodes natalensis Mörch, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=709527 on 2013-05-23
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