Euparthenia
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Euparthenia is a genus of very small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks, or micromollusks. This genus is currently placed in the subfamily Chrysallidinae of the family Odostomiidae.
The name Euparthenia is a replacement name for Parthenia Lowe, 1841 not Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (see van Aartsen & Corgan, 1996).
The genus Euparthenia contains both Recent and fossil species.
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[edit] Life habits
Little is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As is true of most members of the Pyramidellidae sensu lato, they are most likely to be ectoparasites.
[edit] Species within the genus Euparthenia
- Euparthenia bulinea (Lowe, 1841) (Type species) (as Parthenia bulinea)
- Euparthenia elegans
- Euparthenia humboldti (Risso, 1926)
- Euparthenia nordmanni Sorgenfrei, 1958
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[edit] References
- Aartsen, J. J. van & Corgan, J. X. (1996). "Thiele's pyramidellacean gastropod names". Basteria 60: 177–182.
- Lowe, R. T. (1841). "On Parthenia a new genus of recent marine shells of molluscs, containing British species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 8: 39–42.
- Thiele, J. (1929). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde 1. Jena, i-vi, 1-376.
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