''Paramegadenus'' is a

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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 ...

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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. (2014). Paramegadenus Humphreys & Lützen, 1972. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=536400 on 2014-12-24

Distribution

This marine genus is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to Australia and occurs off

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Species

* '' Paramegadenus arrhynchus'' (Ivanov, 1937) * '' Paramegadenus incerta'' Warén, 1980 * '' Paramegadenus scutellicola'' Warén, 1980

References

* Humphreys & Lutzen, 1972 (Biologiske Skrifter, 19(1): 25) * Warén A. (1980) ''Descriptions of new taxa of Eulimidae (Mollusca, Prosobranchia), with notes on some previously described genera.'' Zoologica Scripta 9: 283-306

External links

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