''Amamibalcis'' is a
genus
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of
ectoparasitic
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sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s,
marine gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the
family
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Eulimidae
Eulimidae is a family of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Vanikoroidea.
Description
These small parasitic snails live on (or in some cases in) the bodies of echinoderms such as sea cucumbers, se ...
.
[Kuroda & Habe, 1950. Warén A. (1984) A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies suppl. 13: 1-96.
page(s): 29 Accessed through: ]World Register of Marine Species
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Content
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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=536936 on 2013-02-01.
Species
There are five known
species
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within the genus ''Amamibalcis'':
* ''
Amamibalcis comoxensis''
(Bartsch, 1917)
* ''
Amamibalcis conspicua
''Amamibalcis conspicua'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Amamibalcis conspicua (A. N. Golikov, 1985). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: h ...
''
(Golikov, 1985)
* ''
Amamibalcis flavipunctata''
(Habe, 1961)
* ''
Amamibalcis gracillima''
(G.B. Sowerby II, 1865)
* ''
Amamibalcis yessonensis''
(Rybakov & Yakolev, 1993)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Amamibalcis kawamurai''
(Kuroda & Habe, 1950): synonym of ''
Melanella kawamurai''
(Huroda & Habe, 1950).
References
External links
To World Register of Marine Species
Eulimidae
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