''Ophiolamia'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of parasitic

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 Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

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 cucumbers, se ...

.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Ophiolamia. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137984 on 2014-12-24

Species

* '' Ophiolamia armigeri'' Warén & Carney, 1981 * '' Ophiolamia fragilissima'' Bouchet & Warén, 1986

References

* Warén A. & Carney R.S. 1981. ''Ophiolamia armigeri gen. et sp. n. (Mollusca, Prosobranchia) parasitic on the abyssal ophiuroid Ophiomusium armigerum''. Sarsia, 66: 183-193

External links

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