''Thaleia '' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of very small

ectoparasitic 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 ha ...

sea snails, marine gastropod

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s or micromollusks in the

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 ...

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.Bouchet, P. (2014). Thaleia Warén, 1979. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=416065 on 2014-12-28

Species

Species within the genera ''Thaleia '' include: * '' Thaleia mucronetincta'' (Thiele, 1925) * '' Thaleia nisonis'' (Dall, 1889)

References

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