''Fusceulima'' is a
genus
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of
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
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
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 ...
.
[Laseron, 1955. Warén A. (1984) A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies suppl. 13: 1-96. page(s): 46. 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=137973 on 2013-02-20.
Species
Species within this genus include:
* ''
Fusceulima asser''
(Bartsch, 1915)
* ''
Fusceulima boscheineni''
(Engl, 1998)
* ''
Fusceulima castanea''
(Laseron, 1955)
* ''
Fusceulima coralensis''
Hoffman & Freiwald, 2017
* ''
Fusceulima digitalis''
Hoffman & Engl, 2021
* ''
Fusceulima flava''
Laseron, 1955
* ''
Fusceulima fulva''
(Watson, 1897)
* ''
Fusceulima goodingi''
(Warén, 1981)
* ''
Fusceulima ignota''
(Thiele, 1925)
* ''
Fusceulima ingolfiana''
(Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
* ''
Fusceulima innotabilis''
(Turton, 1932)
* ''
Fusceulima inusta''
(Hedley, 1906)
* ''
Fusceulima jacksonensis''
Laseron, 1955
* ''
Fusceulima lineata''
(Monterosato, 1869)
* ''
Fusceulima lutea''
(Turton, 1932)
* ''
Fusceulima mangonuica''
(Powell, 1940)
* ''
Fusceulima minuta''
(Jeffreys, 1884)
* ''
Fusceulima murdochi''
(Hedley, 1904)
* ''
Fusceulima projectilabrum''
(Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
*''
Fusceulima saturata''
Souza & Pimenta, 2014
* ''
Fusceulima sordida''
(Watson, 1897)
* ''
Fusceulima thalassae''
(Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
*''
Fusceulima toffee''
Souza & Pimenta, 2014[
* '' Fusceulima victorhensenae'' Hoffman & Freiwald, 2017
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Fusceulima major'' (Bouchet & Warén, 1986): synonym of '' Fuscapex major'' (Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
* ''Fusceulima richteri'' (Engl, 1998): synonym of '' Sticteulima richteri'' Engl, 1997
* ''Fusceulima sucina'' (Laseron, 1955): synonym of '' Fusceulima jacksonensis'' Laseron, 1955
]
References
* Warén, A. (1984). A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies. suppl 13: 1-96
External links
To World Register of Marine Species
Laseron C. F. (1955). ''Revision of the New South Wales Eulimoid shells''. Australian Zoologist 12 (2): 83-101 page(s): 95
Serge GOFAS, Ángel A. LUQUE, Joan Daniel OLIVER, José TEMPLADO & Alberto SERRA (2021) - The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean); European Journal of Taxonomy 785: 1–114
Eulimidae
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