Babella
| Babella | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Babella caelatior | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Subcohort: | Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Pyramidelloidea |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Genus: | Babella Dall & Bartsch, 1906[1] |
| Type species | |
| Turbonilla (Babella) caelatior Dall & Bartsch, 1906 | |
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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).[2]
Description[edit]
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[edit]
The genus seems to be limited to tropical and temperate regions of the Pacific Ocean.
Life habits[edit]
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[edit]
There are twelve known species within the genus Babella, these include:
- Babella affectuosa (Yokoyama, 1927)
- Babella caelatior (Dall & Bartsch, 1906) - synonym: Babella caelata (A. Adams, 1864)[3]
- Babella caledonica Peñas & Rolán, 2017
- Babella ceciriana (Saurin, 1958)
- Babella claudoni (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1907)
- Babella crassicostata (Saurin, 1958)
- Babella cylindrica (Saurin, 1958)
- Babella funiculata (Saurin, 1961)
- Babella gloria (Nomura, S., 1938)
- Babella glycisma (Melvill, 1899)
- Babella hastula (Saurin, 1961)
- Babella khmeriana (Saurin, 1962)
- Babella mariellaeformis (Nomura, 1938)
- Babella obliquissima (Saurin, 1959)
- Babella pallida Peñas & Rolán, 2017
- Babella planispiralis Peñas & Rolán, 2017
- Babella prominens Peñas & Rolán, 2017
- Babella ventricosa (Saurin, 1958)
- Babella yabei yabei Nomura 1936
- Babella yabei perarellia Nomura 1938
- Species brought into synonymy
- Babella bartschi (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906): synonym of Egilina callista (Melvill, 1893)
- Babella caelata (A. Adams, 1863): synonym of Babella caelatior (Dall & Bartsch, 1906)
References[edit]
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2018). Babella Dall & Bartsch, 1906. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=588302 on 2018-01-08
- ^ Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Babella caelatior (Dall & Bartsch, 1906). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=588304 on 2018-01-08
- Peñas A. & Rolán E. (2017). Deep water Pyramidelloidea from the central and South Pacific. The tribe Chrysallidini. ECIMAT (Estación de Ciencias Mariñas de Toralla) - Universidade de Vigo, 412 pp
External links[edit]
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