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Grand coral worm snail
Thylacodes grandis
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 732856, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Grand coral worm snail
- Scientific
- Thylacodes grandis
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Sea snails
- Family
- Vermetidae (worm snails)
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
A worm snail: a snail that lives cemented into the reef with an irregular, tube-like shell. It catches food by spreading sticky mucus threads into the water and reeling them in. Only the opening and the trapdoor are usually visible.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=12, 6 observers).
Sources
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=732856
- inaturalist.org /taxa/1077718
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Caracol_gusano_(Thylacodes_grandis),_Anilao,_Filipinas,_202
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.