User:DonaldDuck808/Thylacodes variabilis

''Comments (by A.Faucci): Great info! just try to add a few more sentences. i know at least the article by Hadfield & Kay has much more (if you can't access it i should have a pdf version or hardcopy of that).''

''Make sure you add separate sections for the separate parts. You can shorten the current lead section to have ore info in each section. Minimum sections should be:''

Description (& Biology)

how does this organism look? anything else, like color, size, shell, biology, how does it feed, reproduce etc.

Distribution & Habitat

Where does this species occur geographically and where specifically (which habitat, depth, substrate, etc.)

References: you will need more references ( at least 5 in addition to the existing article). i will have my 2 mollusc books with me that have it in there. it is also on marinelifephotography and the species is in several scientific publications you should be able to find in Google Scholar.

Make sure your content makes sense. you say it reproduced in Summer, January and March (both month are not in summer). Also, newborn are not something we use in animals other than humans or mammals. I think you mean larvae. There are more details in Hadfield & Kay. Also make sure to always write a scientific name in the correct format: in italic, genus capitalized, specific epithet not: Thylacodes variabilis

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Thylacodes Variabilis is a species of snail in the family of worm-snails. At adulthood, it reaches a length of 14 millimeters at the most. Female Thylacodes Variabilis releases its offspring via eggs/capsules. There are 48 capsules per female and 240 eggs per capsule. Thylacodes Variabilis resides down to depths of 40 feet. The snail lives in open environments, to include: tide pools, shallow, wave-swept reef flats, and rocky reefs. The snail has a white-brown shell, which is coiled or partly straight. The shell is often overgrown with coralline algae or coated with sand grains. This is the only worm snail in Hawaii that has no operculum.