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Tylodina perversa (Gmelin, 1791)

141877  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141877)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Heterobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Euthyneura (Infraclass)
  7. Tectipleura (Subterclass)
  8. Umbraculida (Order)
  9. Umbraculoidea (Superfamily)
  10. Tylodinidae (Family)
  11. Tylodina (Genus)
  12. Tylodina perversa (Species)
accepted
Species
marine
recent + fossil
(of Patella perversa Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3714 [details] OpenAccess publication
Distribution Portugal,
Strait of Gibraltar, southern and eastern Mediterranean Iberian coasts, Balearic Islands, Canary and Selvagens...  
Distribution Portugal,
Strait of Gibraltar, southern and eastern Mediterranean Iberian coasts, Balearic Islands, Canary and Selvagens Islands, Madeira and the Azores; Cape Verde; Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of France; Greece; Turkey, Israel and Croatia; Malta; and Italy. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tylodina perversa (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141877 on 2025-09-11
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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Gofas, Serge
2016-07-27 16:38:23Z
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Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of Tylodina punctulata Rafinesque, 1814) Rafinesque, C.S. (1814). Definizioni di 36 nuovi generi di animali marini della Sicilia. [Definitions of 36 new genera of marine animals from Sicily.]. <em>Specchio delle Scienze o Giornale Enciclopedico di Sicilia. Deposito letterario delle moderne cognizioni, scoperte ed osservazioni sopra le Scienze ed Arti.</em> 2: 161-166., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40818344
page(s): 162 [details] 

original description (of Patella perversa Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3714 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Tylodina atlantica J. E. Gray, 1856) Gray, J. E. (1856). Description of the animals and teeth of <i>Tylodina</i> and other genera of gasteropodous Mollusca. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1856) 24: 41-46., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12860567
page(s): 46 [details] 

context source (WoRCS) Digenis, M.; Ragkousis, M.; Dimitriadis, C.; Katsanevakis, S.; Gerovasileiou, V. (2025). Assessing the Motile Fauna of Eastern Mediterranean Marine Caves. <em>Fishes.</em> 10(8): 383., available online at https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes10080383 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Fernández-Vilert, R., Giribet, G., Salvador, X. & Moles, J. (2020). Assessing the systematics of Tylodinidae in the Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Atlantic Ocean: resurrecting <i>Tylodina rafinesquii</i> Philippi, 1836 (Heterobranchia: Umbraculida). <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> doi:10.1093/mollus/eyaa031I., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyaa031
page(s): figs 2A–J, 3A–D, 4A–C, 5A–D [details] 

additional source Lombardo, A.; Marletta, G. (2022). New observations on two umbraculid molluscs: Tylodina perversa (Umbraculida: Tylodinidae) and Umbraculum umbraculum (Umbraculida, Umbraculidae) along the central&#8209;eastern coast of Sicily. <em>Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa”.</em> 65(2): 15-25., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/travaux.65.e91185 [details] 

additional source Valdés Á. & Lozouet P. (2000). Opisthobranch molluscs from the Tertiary of the Aquitaine Basin (south-western France), with descriptions of seven new species and a new genus. <em>Palaeontology.</em> 43(3): 457-479., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0031-0239.2000.00135.x/pdf [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Distribution Portugal,
Strait of Gibraltar, southern and eastern Mediterranean Iberian coasts, Balearic Islands, Canary and Selvagens Islands, Madeira and the Azores; Cape Verde; Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of France; Greece; Turkey, Israel and Croatia; Malta; and Italy. [details]
LanguageName 
Dutch gele tylodina  [details]
English yellow umbrella slugyellow tylodina  [details]
French tylodine jaune  [details]
German gelbe Tylodina  [details]
Italian tilodina gialla  [details]
Spanish tylodina amarilla  [details]
To Malacopics (Tylodina perversa (Gmelin, 1791) Spain, Canarias, El Hierro, Charco Manso) 
To Malacopics (Tylodina perversa (Gmelin, 1791) Spain, Canarias, Lanzarote, Playa de Matagorda, beached with animal, collected January 2005, ex coll. J. Trausel) 
To Malacopics (Tylodina perversa (Gmelin,1791) Turkey, Aydin, Didim, off Didim, at 70-80 m depth) 
To Marine Heterobranchia (Salento Sommerso) 
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