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| Thylacodes squamigerus | |
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| A view of the shell of a live Thylacodes squamigerus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Vermetidae |
| Genus: | Thylacodes |
| Species: | T. squamigerus
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| Binomial name | |
| Thylacodes squamigerus (Carpenter, 1856)
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Thylacodes squamigerus, common name the scaled wormsnail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails. This species was previously known as Serpulorbis squamigerus.[1]
This worm snail lives along the Pacific coast of North America, south of Monterey.[2] This species is often cemented into colonies and is a uniquely sedentary snail.[2] It has no operculum.
- ^ Bieler, R. "Thylacodes squamigerus (Carpenter, 1857)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ a b Russo, Ron; Olhausen, Pam (1981). Pacific Intertidal Life: A guide to organisms of rocky reefs and tide pools of the Pacific Coast. AdventureKEEN. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-912550-32-9.