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The worm snail Thylacodes adamsii (Mörch, 1859) (Littorinimorpha: Vermetidae) is a sessile snail that mainly inhabits rocky coasts along the warm temperate to tropical oceans.
Thylacodes adamsii shoots out chemically enriched mucus nets to catch nutrients and has no operculum
Also in Thylacodes adamsii the operculum is missing, the species has undergone a parallel evolution of the non-operculate marine worm snail genera Thylacodes, so it also lacks an operculum (trapdoor) that closes the tube.
Around Maizuru, Japan, the worm snails occur in high densities on oyster shells in the subtidal zone.
The type locality Borneo mentioned in the first description was later changed to Japan.
Synonyms:
Serpulorbis imbricatus (Dunker, 1860) · unaccepted (junior homonym; subjective synonym)
Siphonium adamsii Mörch, 1859 · unaccepted (original combination)
Vermetus imbricatus Dunker, 1860 · unaccepted (junior homonym, subjective synonym)
Literature reference:
MITOCHONDRIAL DNA PART B: RESOURCES
2024, VOL. 9, NO. 6, 753–757
https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2024.2368209
Complete mitochondrial genome of the worm snail Thylacodes adamsii (Littorinimorpha: Vermetidae) from South Korea
Yumin Leea , Ki Beom Kima, , Eun Hwa Choia and Ui Wook Hwang
� 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits
unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow
the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent
Thylacodes adamsii shoots out chemically enriched mucus nets to catch nutrients and has no operculum
Also in Thylacodes adamsii the operculum is missing, the species has undergone a parallel evolution of the non-operculate marine worm snail genera Thylacodes, so it also lacks an operculum (trapdoor) that closes the tube.
Around Maizuru, Japan, the worm snails occur in high densities on oyster shells in the subtidal zone.
The type locality Borneo mentioned in the first description was later changed to Japan.
Synonyms:
Serpulorbis imbricatus (Dunker, 1860) · unaccepted (junior homonym; subjective synonym)
Siphonium adamsii Mörch, 1859 · unaccepted (original combination)
Vermetus imbricatus Dunker, 1860 · unaccepted (junior homonym, subjective synonym)
Literature reference:
MITOCHONDRIAL DNA PART B: RESOURCES
2024, VOL. 9, NO. 6, 753–757
https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2024.2368209
Complete mitochondrial genome of the worm snail Thylacodes adamsii (Littorinimorpha: Vermetidae) from South Korea
Yumin Leea , Ki Beom Kima, , Eun Hwa Choia and Ui Wook Hwang
� 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits
unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow
the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent
