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Titiscania

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Titiscania
Titiscania
Scientific classification
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Titiscaniidae

Bergh, 1890[1]
Genus:
Titiscania

Bergh, 1890[1]
Type species
Titiscania limacina Bergh, 1890

Titiscania is a genus of slug-like sea snails, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Neritopsoidea.[2][3]

Titiscania is the type genus[2] and also the only genus in the family Titiscaniidae.

The original vernacular spelling "Die Titiscanien" by Rudolph Bergh (1890)[1] was Latinized by Johannes Thiele in 1891.[2]

Excepting some parasitic forms, Titiscania is the only genus of gastropod outside of the Heterobranchia to have secondarily lost its mineralized shell,[4] which it sheds after its larval phase.[5]

When disturbed a bluish white, thread-like substance is discharged through defensive glands in the form of about 12 densely placed white papillae on both sides of the back.[6]

Species

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Species within the genus Titiscania include:

References

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  1. ^ a b c (in German) Bergh R. (1890). "Die Titiscanien eine Families der rhipidoglossen Gasteropoden". Morphologisches Jahrbuch 16: 1-26, plates 1-3. page 1.
  2. ^ a b c Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Titiscania. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225430 on 2016-01-20
  4. ^ Dayrat B. & Tillier S. (2003). "Goals and limits of phylogenetics. The euthyneuran gastropods". In Lydeard C. & Lindberg D. R. (eds.). Molecular systematics and phylogeography of mollusks. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books.
  5. ^ Kano Y., Chiba S. & Kase T. (2002). "Major adaptive radiation in neritopsine gastropods estimated from 28S rRNA sequences and fossil records". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 269: 2457. doi:10.1098/rspb.2002.2178.
  6. ^ First Record of Titiscania limacina Bergh, 1890 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from India
  7. ^ Bouchet, P. (2010). Titiscania limacina Bergh, 1890. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532065 on 2011-03-26
  8. ^ Bouchet, P. (2010). Titiscania shinkishihataii Taki, 1955. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532066 on 2011-03-26