Thylacodes squamigerus
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
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| image = Serpulorbis squamigerus.jpg
| image_caption = A view of the shell of a live Thylacodes squamigerus
| genus = Thylacodes
| species = squamigerus
| authority = (Carpenter, 1856)
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Thylacodes squamigerus, common name the scaled wormsnail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails. This species was previously known as Serpulorbis squamigerus.{{cite web |last1=Bieler |first1=R |title=Thylacodes squamigerus (Carpenter, 1857) |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=709499 |website=World Register of Marine Species |access-date=18 December 2018}}
This worm snail lives along the Pacific coast of North America, south of Monterey.{{Cite book |last=Russo |first=Ron |title=Pacific Intertidal Life: A guide to organisms of rocky reefs and tide pools of the Pacific Coast |last2=Olhausen |first2=Pam |publisher=AdventureKEEN |year=1981 |isbn=978-0-912550-32-9 |pages=21 |language=en-us}} This species is often cemented into colonies and is a uniquely sedentary snail. It has no operculum.
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Category:Gastropods described in 1856
Category:Taxa named by Philip Pearsall Carpenter
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