''Curveulima'' is a major
genus
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of medium-sized
sea snails,
marine gastropod 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 cucumber ...
.
[Laseron, 1955. Warén A. (1984) A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies suppl. 13: 1-96.
page(s): 38. 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=137964 on 2013-01-08.
Species
There are multiple known species to exist within the genus, ''Curveulima'', these include the following:
* ''
Curveulima abrupta''
(Laseron, 1955)
* ''
Curveulima aupouria''
(Powell, 1937)
* ''
Curveulima beneitoi''
(Peñas & Rolán, 2006)
* ''
Curveulima bollonsi''
(Powell, 1937)
* ''
Curveulima capensis''
(Thiele, 1915)
* ''
Curveulima carifa''
(Bartsch, 1915)
* ''
Curveulima cornuta''
(Laseron, 1955)
* ''
Curveulima dautzenbergi
''Curveulima dautzenbergi'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of a number within the genus '' Curveulima''. The species was named in honor of Belgian malacologist, Philippe Dautz ...
''
(Pallary, 1900)
* ''
Curveulima denscolubri''
(Melvill, 1896)
* ''
Curveulima devians''
(Monterosato, 1884)
* ''
Curveulima eschara''
(Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
* ''
Curveulima icafra''
(Bartsch, 1915)
* ''
Curveulima indiscreta''
(Tate, 1898)
* ''
Curveulima komai''
(Habe, 1950)
* ''
Curveulima litoris''
(Laseron, 1955)
* ''
Curveulima macrophtalmica''
(Warén, 1972)
* ''
Curveulima manifesta''
(Laseron, 1955)
* ''
Curveulima marshalli''
(Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
* ''
Curveulima obliquistoma''
(Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
* ''
Curveulima otakauica''
(Dell, 1956)
* ''
Curveulima pinguicula''
(A. Adams, 1861)
* ''
Curveulima styla''
(Hoffman, van Heugten & Lavaleye, 2011)
* ''
Curveulima titahica''
(Suter, 1908)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Curveulima commensalis''
(Tate, 1898): synonym of ''
Vitreolina commensalis
''Vitreolina'' is a genus of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the Eulimidae family.
This genus was first described by Monterosato in 1884. He proposed it as a section in the family Eulimidae f ...
''
(Tate, 1898)
* ''Curveulima echinocardiachila''
(Habe, 1976): synonym of ''
Hypermastus exhinocardiachila''
(Habe, 1976)
* ''Curveulima flavipunctata''
(Habe, 1961): synonym of ''
Amamibalcis flavipunctata''
(Habe, 1961)
* ''Curveulima lata''
(Laseron, 1955): synonym of ''
Parvioris subobtusa
''Parvioris'' is a genus of small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Parvioris Warén, 1981. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.or ...
''
(Laseron, 1955)
* ''Curveulima macrophthalmica''
(Warén, 1972): synonym of ''
Curveulima macrophtalmica''
(Warén, 1972)
* ''Curveulima nishimurai''
(Habe, 1958): synonym of ''
Eulitoma nishimurai''
(Habe, 1958)
* ''Curveulima obtusa''
(Laseron, 1955): synonym of ''
Melanella obtusa''
(Laseron, 1955)
* ''Curveulima quantilla''
(Turton, 1932): synonym of ''
Curveulima icafra''
(Bartsch, 1915)
* ''Curveulima subobtusa''
(Laseron, 1955): synonym of ''
Parvioris subobtusa
''Parvioris'' is a genus of small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Parvioris Warén, 1981. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.or ...
''
(Laseron, 1955)
;Taxon inquirendum:
* ''Curveulima kowiensis''
(Turton, 1932)
References
External links
To World Register of Marine
Eulimidae
{{Eulimidae-stub