MolluscaBase taxon details
Tylodina perversa (Gmelin, 1791)
141877 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141877)
accepted
Species
Patella perversa Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted
Tylodina atlantica J. E. Gray, 1856 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tylodina citrina Joannis, 1853 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tylodina punctulata Rafinesque, 1814 · unaccepted
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]
page(s): 3714 [details]
Distribution Portugal,
Strait of Gibraltar, southern and eastern Mediterranean Iberian coasts, Balearic Islands, Canary and Selvagens...
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]
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 2025-09-12
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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]
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
[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‑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]
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]
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
[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‑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]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Barcode of Life (32 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) (from synonym Tylodina punctulata Rafinesque, 1814)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (56 publications) (from synonym Tylodina citrina Joannis, 1853)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tylodina perversa)
To GenBank (92 nucleotides; 59 proteins)
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)
To OPK Opistobranquis
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Patella perversa Gmelin, 1791)
To PESI (from synonym Tylodina atlantica J. E. Gray, 1856)
To PESI (from synonym Tylodina citrina Joannis, 1853)
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) (from synonym Tylodina punctulata Rafinesque, 1814)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (56 publications) (from synonym Tylodina citrina Joannis, 1853)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tylodina perversa)
To GenBank (92 nucleotides; 59 proteins)
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)
To OPK Opistobranquis
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Patella perversa Gmelin, 1791)
To PESI (from synonym Tylodina atlantica J. E. Gray, 1856)
To PESI (from synonym Tylodina citrina Joannis, 1853)
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org)
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