Babella | |
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Apertural view of a shell of Babella caelata | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata |
Superfamily: | Pyramidelloidea |
Family: | Pyramidellidae |
Subfamily: | Odostomiinae |
Tribe: | Chrysallidini |
Genus: | Babella Dall & Bartsch, 1906[1] |
Type species | |
Turbonilla {Babella) caelatior Dall & Bartsch, 1906 |
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Species | |
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Babella is a genus of very small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pyramidellidae withon the tribe Chrysallidini (sensu taxonomy by Bouchet & Roctroi, 2005).
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The shell shows strong axial ribs between the sutures and three spiral keels, two of which are at the periphery, which falls in the deep sulcus between them, and one a little anterior to the middle of the base. [1]
The genus seems to be limited to tropical and temperate regions of the Pacific Ocean.
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 ectoparasites.
Species within the genus Babella include: