''Oceanida'' is a

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of very small parasitic

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s or

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s in the

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Eulimidae Eulimidae is a family of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Vanikoroidea. Description These small parasitic snails live on (or in some cases in) the bodies of echinoderms such as sea cucumbers, sea ...

. This genus was described by

Léopold de Folin Léopold de Folin (Alexandre Guillaume Léopold de, Marquis de Folin, 28 August 1817 – 5 July 1896) was an author, oceanographer, malacologist and early founder (1871) of the collections which were to become the ''Musée de la mer'' (sea museu ...

in 1870. These are subtidal snails that are parasitic on

echinoderm An echinoderm () is any member of the phylum Echinodermata (). The adults are recognisable by their (usually five-point) radial symmetry, and include starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers, as well as the sea ...

s. Their length varies between 2 and 3 mm.

Species

Species within this genus include: * '' Oceanida abrejosensis''

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, 1917 * '' Oceanida confluens'' Bouchet & Warén, 1986 * '' Oceanida corallina'' Hedley, 1912 * '' Oceanida faberi'' De Jong & Coomans, 1988 - the common labeo - found from

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to Northeast Brazil. * '' Oceanida graduata'' de Folin, 1871 - the shouldered eulima - distributed in North America; Western Atlantic Ocean; synonyms : ''Spiroclimax scalaris'' Mörch, 1875; ''Athleenia burryi''

, 1946 * '' Oceanida hypolysina'' Melvill, 1904 * '' Oceanida inglei''

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, 1978 - distributed in North America; Western Atlantic Ocean * '' Oceanida lampra'' Melvill, 1918 * '' Oceanida mindoroensis'' Adams & Reeve, 1850 * '' Oceanida whitechurchi'' Turton, 1932 ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Oceanida burryi'' (Bartsch, 1946): synonym of ''Oceanida graduata'' de Folin, 1871 * ''Oceanida catalinensis'' (Bartsch, 1920) : synonym of ''

Pseudosabinella bakeri ''Pseudosabinella'' is a genus of very small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Eulimidae Eulimidae is a family of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily V ...

'' (Bartsch, 1917) * ''Oceanida lepida'' (A. Adams, 1864): synonym of '' Leiostraca pygmaea'' A. Adams, 1864 * ''Oceanida ovalis'' de Folin, 1884: synonym of '' Doliella nitens (Jeffreys, 1870) * ''Oceanida pumila'' A. Adams, 1864 (taxon unverified- still inquarantine at WoRMS) * ''Oceanida tumerae'' Laseron, 1955: unpublished combination for '' Hebeulima tumere'' Laseron, 1955) * ''Oceanida scalaris'' (Mörch, 1875): synonym of ''Oceanida graduata'' de Folin, 1871

References

* Jong, K. M. de and H. E. Coomans. 1988. ''Marine gastropods from Curaçao, Aruba and Bonaire'' Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 69 1-261, 47 pls.
de Folin L. 1870. ''D'une méthode de classification pour les coquilles de la famille des Chemnitzidae''. Annales de la Société Linnéenne du Département du Maine et Loire 12: 191-202
*Folin, L. de. 1871. Nouveau supplément aux mollusques de la Pointe-à-Pitre In: L. de Folin & L. Périer ed. Les Fonds de la Mer 1 263-265, pl. 24 Savy: Paris *Morch, O. A. L. 1875. ''Synopsis molluscorum marinorum Indiarum occidentalium'' Malakozoologische Blätter 22 142–184. * Lyons, W. G. 1978. ''Status of the genus Oceanida DeFolin (Gastropoda: Eulimidae), with a description of a new species'' Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 91 539–545. *(.pdf document)

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