Chrysallida

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Chrysallida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Order: Heterostropha
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Subfamily: Chrysallidinae
Genus: Chrysallida
Carpenter, 1856
Species

See text.

Chrysallida is a speciose genus of minute sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks. This genus is currently placed in the family Odostomiidae in the subfamily Chrysallidinae.

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[edit] Distribution

The genus Chrysallida is common in all oceans from the tropics to the polar regions. It is mainly known from coastal areas, and is uncommon in the deep sea.

[edit] Life habits

The members of Chrysallida are ectoparasites on serpulid polychaetes.

[edit] Species within the genus Chrysallida

  • Chrysallida communis (C. B Adams, 1852) (as Chemnizia communis) (Type species)[1]
  • Chrysallida bjoernssoni Warén, 1991
  • Chrysallida brattstroemi Warén, 1991
  • Chrysallida canariensis Nordsieck & Talavera, 19791
  • Chrysallida clathrata (Jeffreys, 1848)
  • Chrysallida micronana Öztürk & van Aartsen, 2006 (replacement name for Chrysallida nana (Hornung and Mermod, 1924))[2].
  • Chrysallida nioba (Dall and Bartsch, 1911)
  • Chrysallida sarsi Nordsieck, 1972
  • Chrysallida toroensis (Olsson & McGinty, 1958)
  • Chrysallida undata (Watson, 1897)
  • ...
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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Palmer K. E. (1958). "Type specimens of marine mollusca described by P. P. Carpenter from the West Coast (San Diego to British Columbia)". Geological Society of America Memoir 76. 
  2. ^ Öztürk B.; Van Aartsen J. J. (2006). "[http://www.aquaticinvasions.ru/2006/AI_2006_1_4_Ozturk_Aartsen.pdf Indo-Pacific species in the Mediterranean. 5. Chrysallida micronana nom. nov. for Chrysallida nana (Hornung and Mermod, 1924) (Gastropoda:Pyramidellidae)]". Aquatic invasions 1 (4). 

[edit] References

  • Carpenter, P. P. (1856). "Description of new species and varieties of Calyptraeidae, Trochidae, and Pyramidellidae, principally in the collection of Hugh Cumming, Esq.". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 24: 166-171. 

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