Tylodinidae is a family of sea snails or false limpets, marine opisthobranch gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Umbraculoidea.
Taxonomy
The family Tylodinidae is currently placed in the superfamily Umbraculoidea within the clade Euopisthobranchia.
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the family contains only one accepted genus (Anidolyta and several other names are junior synonyms of Tylodina).
Genera Tylodina Rafinesque, 1814 (type genus)
Species The following seven species are currently accepted in the genus Tylodina:
Tylodina americana Dall, 1890 Tylodina corticalis (Tate, 1889) Tylodina duebenii Lovén, 1846 Tylodina fungina Gabb, 1865 Tylodina perversa (Gmelin, 1791) Tylodina rafinesquii R. A. Philippi, 1836 Tylodina spongotheras (Bertsch, 1980)
References
WoRMS info on the family
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