''Vitreobalcis'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of very small

ectoparasitic Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson ha ...

sea snails,

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gastropod

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...

s or

micromollusk A micromollusk is a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also ...

s in the

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 ...

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.Bouchet, P. (2014). Vitreobalcis Warén, 1980. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=531831 on 2014-12-29

Species

Species within the genus ''Vitreobalcis''include : * ''

Vitreobalcis holdsworthi ''Vitreobalcis'' is a genus of very small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the Eulimidae family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recog ...

'' (H. Adams, 1874) * ''

Vitreobalcis laevis ''Vitreobalcis'' is a genus of very small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the Eulimidae family.Bouchet, P. (2014). Vitreobalcis Warén, 1980. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http:// ...

'' Warén, 1980 * ''

Vitreobalcis nutans ''Vitreobalcis'' is a genus of very small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the Eulimidae family.Bouchet, P. (2014). Vitreobalcis Warén, 1980. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http:// ...

'' (Mühlfeld, 1824)

References

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