Aliculastrum

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Aliculastrum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Heterobranchia
Order: Opisthobranchia
Suborder: Cephalaspidea
Superfamily: Haminoeoidea
Family: Haminoeidae
Genus: Aliculastrum
(Pilsbry, 1896)
Species

See text.

Aliculastrum is a genus of small sea snails or bubble snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod molluscs in the family Haminoeidae.

This genus was originally considered a subgenus of Atys.

[edit] Life habits

These bubble snails are herbivores; they live on plant or algal substrates.

[edit] Species

  • Aliculastrum attenuatum
  • Aliculastrum cylindricum (Helbling, 1779) Cylindrical atys, cylindrical true bubble, silkworm shell, Distribution : Indo-West Pacific, Length : 10 to 30 mm
  • Aliculastrum extensum
  • Aliculastrum ooformis (Habe, 1964)


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