Variable Worm Snail

Thylacodes variabilis

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Vermetidae

Thylacodes variabilis is a species of worm snail common in the rocky intertidal in Hawaiʻi and the tropical Pacific. Description Thylacodes variabilis has a white-brown shell, which is coiled or partly straight and can reach a diameter of 14 millimeters. The shell is often overgrown with coralline algae or coated with sand grains.

Distribution

Variable Worm Snail — (c) Mark Richman, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Mark Richman · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 143

Sources and credits

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