Thylacodes squamigerus

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.^[1]

Thylacodes squamigerus
A view of the shell of a live Thylacodes squamigerus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Vermetidae
Genus:	Thylacodes
Species:	T. squamigerus
Binomial name
Thylacodes squamigerus (Carpenter, 1856)

This worm snail lives along the Pacific coast of North America, south of Monterey.^[2] This species is often cemented into colonies and is a uniquely sedentary snail.^[2] It has no operculum.