Tylodina fungina

Tylodina fungina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Euopisthobranchia
clade Umbraculida
Superfamily: Umbraculoidea
Family: Tylodinidae
Genus: Tylodina
Species: T. fungina
Binomial name
Tylodina fungina
Gabb, 1865[1]

Tylodina fungina is a species of sea snail or false limpet, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Tylodinidae.

Ecology

Tylodina fungina feeds only on Aplysina gerardogreeni according to the in situ observations on the Pacific coast of Mexico.[2] It is specialized on this sponge.[2]

References

  1. Gabb W. M. (1865). "Description of new species of marine shells from the coast of California". Proceedings of the California Academy of Science 3: 182-190.
  2. 1 2 Verdín Padilla C. J., Carballo J. L. & Camacho M. L. (2010). "A qualitative assessment of sponge-feeding organisms from the Mexican Pacific Coast". Open Marine Biology Journal 4: 39–46. PDF
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