Evalina

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Evalina

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

Species

See text.

Evalina is a small genus of sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks. This genus is currently placed in the family Odostomiidae, and in the subfamily Chrysallidinae.

The genus has both Recent and fossil members.

[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 ectoparasites.

[edit] Species within the genus Evalina

Evalina americana Dall & Bartsch, 1904 (Type species) (as Odostomia (Evalina) americana)
Evalina nishiana (Yokoyama, 1927)
Evalina peasei (Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933)
Evalina waikikiensis (Pilsbry, 1918)
Evalina winkleyi (Bartsch, 1909)
...

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

[edit] References

Dall, W. H. & Bartsch, P. (1904). "Synopsis of the genera, subgenera, and sections of the family Pyramidellidae". Proceedings of the Biological society of Washington 17: 1-16.