''Babella'' is a
genus of very small
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
s,
pyramidellid gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks or
micromollusk
A micromollusk is a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also ...
s in the family
Pyramidellidae within the tribe
Chrysallidini
Chrysallidinae is a taxonomic group of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
Taxonomy
Chrysallidinae has been one of eleven recognized subfamilies of the gastropod family Pyr ...
(sensu taxonomy by Bouchet & Roctroi, 2005).
[Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2018). Babella Dall & Bartsch, 1906. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=588302 on 2018-01-08]
Description
The shell shows strong axial ribs between the
sutures and three spiral keels, two of which are at the periphery, which falls in the deep sulcus between them, and one a little anterior to the middle of the base.
Distribution
The genus seems to be limited to tropical and temperate regions of the
Pacific Ocean.
Life habits
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
ectoparasite
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has ...
s.
Species
There are twelve known species within the genus ''Babella'', these include:
* ''
Babella affectuosa''
(Yokoyama, 1927)
* ''
Babella caelatior
''Babella caelatior'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. The species is one of twelve in the gastropod genus '' Babella''.
Description
The milk-white shell has an elo ...
''
(Dall & Bartsch, 1906) - synonym: ''Babella caelata'' (A. Adams, 1864)
[Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). ''Babella caelatior'' (Dall & Bartsch, 1906). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=588304 on 2018-01-08]
* ''
Babella caledonica''
Peñas & Rolán, 2017
* ''
Babella ceciriana''
(Saurin, 1958)
* ''
Babella claudoni''
(Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1907)
* ''
Babella crassicostata''
(Saurin, 1958)
* ''
Babella cylindrica''
(Saurin, 1958)
* ''
Babella funiculata''
(Saurin, 1961)
* ''
Babella gloria''
(Nomura, S., 1938)
* ''
Babella glycisma''
(Melvill, 1899)
* ''
Babella hastula''
(Saurin, 1961)
* ''
Babella khmeriana''
(Saurin, 1962)
* ''
Babella mariellaeformis
''Babella'' is a genus of very small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pyramidellidae within the tribe Chrysallidini (sensu taxonomy by Bouchet & Roctroi, 2005).Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2 ...
''
(Nomura, 1938)
* ''
Babella obliquissima''
(Saurin, 1959)
* ''
Babella pallida''
Peñas & Rolán, 2017
* ''
Babella planispiralis''
Peñas & Rolán, 2017
* ''
Babella prominens''
Peñas & Rolán, 2017
* ''
Babella ventricosa''
(Saurin, 1958)
* ''
Babella yabei yabei''
Nomura 1936
** ''Babella yabei perarellia''
Nomura 1938
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Babella bartschi''
(Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906): synonym of
Egilina callista
''Egilina callista'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. The species is one of twelve known species within the Babella
''Babella'' is a genus of very small sea snail ...
(Melvill, 1893)
* ''Babella caelata''
(A. Adams, 1863): synonym of ''Babella caelatior''
(Dall & Bartsch, 1906)
References
* Peñas A. & Rolán E. (2017). Deep water Pyramidelloidea from the central and South Pacific. The tribe Chrysallidini. ECIMAT (Estación de Ciencias Mariñas de Toralla) - Universidade de Vigo, 412 pp
External links
Dall W.H. & Bartsch P. (1906). Notes on Japanese, Indo-Pacific and American Pyramidellidae. United States National Museum, Proceedings. 30(1452): 321-369, pls 17-26Gastropods.com: Babella; retrieved: 26 December 2011
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Pyramidellidae
Taxa named by William Healey Dall
Taxa named by Paul Bartsch