Babella
| 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 | |
| Species | |
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Babella is a genus of very small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pyramidellidae within the tribe Chrysallidini (sensu taxonomy by Bouchet & Roctroi, 2005).
Description
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]
Distribution
The genus seems to be limited to tropical and temperate regions of the Pacific Ocean.
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 ectoparasites.
Species
There are twelve known sapecies within the genus Babella, these include:
- Babella affectuosa (Yokoyama, 1927)
- Babella bartschi (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906)
- Babella caelata (A. Adams, 1864)
- Babella ceciriana (Saurin, 1958)
- Babella crassicostata (Saurin, 1958)
- Babella cylindrica (Saurin, 1958)
- Babella funiculata (Saurin, 1961)
- Babella gloria (Nomura, S., 1938)
- Babella hastula (Saurin, 1961)
- Babella yabei yabei Nomura 1936
- Babella yabei perarellia Nomura 1938
- Species brought into synonymy
- Babella caelatior (Dall & Bartsch, 1906) - type species, synonym of Babella caelata A. Adams, 1864
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dall W. H. & Bartsch P. (1906). "Notes on Japanese, Indopacific and American Pyramidellidae". Proceedings of the United States National Museum 30 (20): 321–369, plates 17–26. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.30-1452.321. page 347.