Egila

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Egila

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Orthogastropoda
Order:	Heterostropha
Superfamily:	Pyramidelloidea
Family:	Pyramidellidae
Subfamily:	Chrysallidinae
Genus:	Egila Dall & Bartsch, 1904

Species

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Egila is a small genus of sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks. This genus is currently placed in the the subfamily Chrysallidinae of the family Odostomiidae. It has both recent and fossil (Tertiary) members.

1 Life habits
2 Species within the genus Egila
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Life habits

Little is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As is true of most members of the Pyramidellidae sensu lato, they are most likely to be ectoparasites.

[edit] Species within the genus Egila

Egila lacunata (Carpenter, 1857) (Type species) (as Odostomia (Parthenia) lacunata)
Egila arcuata Laws, 1941
Egila ektopa Piementa & Absalo, 2004
Egila mayii (Tate, 1898)
Egila poppei (Dall & Bartsch, 1909)
Egila univestis Laseron, 1959
Egila virginiae Altena, 1975
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The species of Egila from Brazil have been reviewed by Piementa & Absalo (2004)

[edit] References

Carpenter, P. P. (1857). Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells in the British Museum collected by Frederik Reigen. London, 552 pp.
Dall, W. H. & Bartsch, P (1904). "Synopsis of genera, subgenera, and sections of the family Pyramidellidae". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 17: 1–16.
Piementa, A. D. & Absalo, R. S. (2004). "Review of the genera Eulimastoma Bartsch, 1916 and Egila Dall & Bartsch, 1904 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pyramidellidae) from Brazil". Zoosystema 26 (2): 157–173.