Oceanida

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Oceanida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropda
Group Ptenoglossa
Superfamily: Eulimoidea
Family: Eulimidae
Genus: Oceanida
de Folin, 1870

Oceanida is a genus of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Eulimidae.

This genus was described by Léopold de Folin in 1870. These are subtidal snails that are parasitic on echinoderms. Their length varies between 2 and 3 mm.

Species

Species within this genus include:[1]

  • Oceanida abrejosensis Bartsch, 1917
  • Oceanida confluens Bouchet & Warén, 1986
  • Oceanida corallina Hedley, 1912
  • Oceanida faberi De Jong & Coomans, 1988 - the common labeo - found from Aruba to Northeast Brazil.
  • Oceanida graduata de Folin, 1871 - the shouldered eulima - distributed in North America; Western Atlantic Ocean; synonyms : Spiroclimax scalaris Mörch, 1875; Athleenia burryi Bartsch, 1946
  • Oceanida hypolysina Melvill, 1904
  • Oceanida inglei Lyons, 1978 - distributed in North America; Western Atlantic Ocean
  • Oceanida lampra Melvill, 1918
  • Oceanida mindoroensis Adams & Reeve, 1850
  • Oceanida ovalis de Folin, 1884
  • Oceanida pontilevensis de Morgan, 1915
  • Oceanida pumila A. Adams, 1864
  • Oceanida tumerae Laseron, 1955
  • Oceanida whitechurchi Turton, 1932

References

  1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Oceanida de Folin, 1870". Marinespecies.org. Retrieved 16 August 2013. 
  • Jong, K. M. de and H. E. Coomans. 1988. Marine gastropods from Curaçao, Aruba and Bonaire Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 69 1-261, 47 pls.
  • Folin, L. de. 1871. Nouveau supplément aux mollusques de la Pointe-à-Pitre In: L. de Folin & L. Périer ed. Les Fonds de la Mer 1 263-265, pl. 24 Savy: Paris
  • Morch, O. A. L. 1875. Synopsis molluscorum marinorum Indiarum occidentalium Malakozoologische Blätter 22 142-184.
  • Lyons, W. G. 1978. Status of the genus Oceanida DeFolin (Gastropoda: Eulimidae), with a description of a new species Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 91 539-545.
  • David K.Camp,William G. Lyons, and Thomas H. Perkins (1998). Checklists of Selected Shallow-Water Marine Invertebrates of Florida. St. Petersburg, FL: Florida Department of Environmental Protection.  (.pdf document)

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