Evalina
Appearance
Evalina | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Family: | Pyramidellidae |
Tribe: | Chrysallidini |
Genus: | Evalina Dall & Bartsch, 1904[1] |
Species | |
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Evalina is a small genus of sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks in the tribe Chrysallidini within the family Pyramidellidae.
The genus has both Recent and fossil members.
Life habits
[edit]Little is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As is true of most members of the Pyramidellidae sensu lato, they are ectoparasites.
Species
[edit]Species within the genus Evalina include:
- Evalina americana Dall & Bartsch, 1904 - type species, as Odostomia (Evalina) americana
- Evalina nishiana (Yokoyama, 1927)
- Evalina peasei (Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933)
- Evalina waikikiensis (Pilsbry, 1918)
- Evalina winkleyi (Bartsch, 1909)
- ...
References
[edit]- ^ Dall W. H. & Bartsch P. (1904). "Synopsis of the genera, subgenera, and sections of the family Pyramidellidae". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 17: 1–16. page 12.