Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Umbraculida > Superfamily Umbraculoidea > Family Tylodinidae > Genus Tylodina

Tylodina perversa (Gmelin, 1791)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tylodina*	Rafinesque, 1814	accepted genus name
*Anidolyta*	Willan, 1987	synonym
*Tylodinella*	Mazzarelli, 1897	synonym

Species group names

*Patella perversa*	Gmelin, 1791	synonym
*Tylodina atlantica*	J. E. Gray, 1856	synonym
*Tylodina citrina*	Joannis, 1853	synonym
*Tylodina punctulata*	Rafinesque, 1814	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: gele tylodina sources: DORIS: Données d'Observations pour la Reconnaissance et l'Identification de la faune et de la flore Subaquatiques.

English: yellow tylodina; yellow umbrella slug sources: DORIS: Données d'Observations pour la Reconnaissance et l'Identification de la faune et de la flore Subaquatiques.

French: tylodine jaune sources: DORIS: Données d'Observations pour la Reconnaissance et l'Identification de la faune et de la flore Subaquatiques.

German: gelbe Tylodina; Goldschwammschnecke; Verkehrte Schirmschnecke sources: DORIS: Données d'Observations pour la Reconnaissance et l'Identification de la faune et de la flore Subaquatiques.;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Italian: tilodina gialla sources: DORIS: Données d'Observations pour la Reconnaissance et l'Identification de la faune et de la flore Subaquatiques.

Spanish, Castillian: tylodina amarilla

Literature

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.
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.
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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tylodina perversa (Gmelin, 1791). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141877