''Asterolamia'' is a

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of medium-sized sea snails,

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gastropod

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s in the

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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 cucumber ...

.Warén, 1980. Warén A. (1980) Descriptions of new taxa of Eulimidae (Mollusca, Prosobranchia), with notes on some previously described genera. Zoologica Scripta 9: 283-306. Accessed through:

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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=536405 on 2013-02-11.Warén A. (1984) A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies suppl. 13: 1-96. page(s): 30

Species

There are only two known species within this genus of gastropods: * ''

Asterolamia cingulata ''Asterolamia cingulata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of two known species within the genus ''Asterolamia'', the other being '' Asterolamia hians''.Warén, 1980. Warén A. (19 ...

'' (Warén, 1980) * ''

Asterolamia hians ''Asterolamia hians'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of two known species within the genus ''Asterolamia'', the other being ''Asterolamia cingulata''.Warén, 1980. Warén A. (198 ...

'' Warén, 1980

References

External links

To World Register of Marine Species
Eulimidae {{Eulimidae-stub