''Teretianax'' is a
genus
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of minute
sea snails,
marine gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
s in the
family
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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 ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Teretianax Iredale, 1918. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=536357 on 2022-03-15]
Species
* ''
Teretianax baculumpastoris''
(Melvill & Standen, 1896)
* ''
Teretianax minuta''
(W. H. Turton, 1932)
* ''
Teretianax pagoda''
Powell, 1926
* ''
Teretianax suteri''
(W. R. B. Oliver, 1915)
* ''
Teretianax trilirata''
(de Folin, 1873)
;Synonyms:
* ''Teretianax suta''
(Pilsbry, 1918): synonym of ''
Chrystella suta''
(Pilsbry, 1918)
References
* Ponder, W. F. (1967). The classification of the Rissoidae and Orbitestellidae with descriptions of some new taxa. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology. 9(17): 193-224, pls 1-13.
* Takano T., Tsuzuki S. & Kano Y. (2020). Systematics relocation of Chrystella kajiyamai Habe, 1961 to the eulimid genus Bacula (Gastropoda: Vanikoroidea). Venus. 78(3-4): 119-124.
External links
Iredale, T. (1918). Molluscan nomenclatural problems and solutions.- No. 1. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 13(1-2): 28-40
Eulimidae
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