• Tylodinidae Gray, 1847.

  Type genus:

   Tylodina Rafinesque, 1814.

Introduction

Shell thin and fragile, covered by a thick ribbed or thatch-like periostracum. Animal large, elongate, smooth, with long rounded tail, and large basally swollen laterally grooved rhinophores, enrolled oral tentacles, gill on right side, and invariably bright yellow in life. This family contains a single Australian species. Compiled from Burn (in press).

General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds) 1998. Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234. [977]

Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42

History of changes

• Tylodina Rafinesque, C.S. 1814. Definizione di 36 nuovi generi di animali marini della Sicilia (pp. 161-166). In: Specchio della Scienze, o Giornale enciclopedico di Sicilia. Deposito letterario delle moderne cognizioni, scoperte et osservazioni sopra le scienze ed arti. Palermo : Tipografia Francesco Abate Vol. 2 196 pp. [162].

  Type species:

   Tylodina punctulata Rafinesque, 1814 (=Patella perversa Gmelin, 1791) by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

History of changes

• Umbrella corticalis Tate, R. 1889. Descriptions of some new species of marine Mollusca from South Australia and Victoria. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 11: 60-66, pl. 11 [Date published April] [65, pl. 11, fig. 11].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, South Channel, Port Phillip, VIC, 14–34 m.

Generic Combinations

• Tylodina corticalis (Tate, 1889). —
  Burn, R. 1989. Opisthobranchs (Subclass Opisthobranchia). In, Shepherd, S.A. & Thomas, I.M (eds). Marine Invertebrates of Southern Australia. Part II. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printing Division. [pl. 47.5]
  Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1993. Sea Slugs of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 184 pp. [50-51, photo: species 49]
  Coleman, N. 2001. 1001 Nudibranchs - Catalogue of Indo-Pacific Sea Slugs. Springwood, Queensland : Neville Coleman’s Underwater Geographic Pty Ltd 144 pp. [135, photo]
  Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42 [13]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

0–100 m.

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

History of changes