North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Tylodina perversa (Gmelin, 1791)

AphiaID

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

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Tylodina Rafinesque, 1814

Original name

Patella perversa Gmelin, 1791

Synonymised names

Patella perversa Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted

Tylodina atlantica J. E. Gray, 1856 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Tylodina citrina Joannis, 1834 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

marine

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Patella perversa Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3714 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tylodina perversa (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=141877 on 2026-05-20

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Tylodina perversa (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=141877 on 2026-05-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2016-07-27 16:38:23Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of Patella perversa Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , 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 Tylodina and other genera of gasteropodous Mollusca. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (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. Fishes. 10(8): 383., available online at https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes10080383 [details] Available for editors

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 Tylodina rafinesquii Philippi, 1836 (Heterobranchia: Umbraculida). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 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. Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa”. 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. Palaeontology. 43(3): 457-479., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0031-0239.2000.00135.x/pdf [details]