Oscilla (genus)

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Oscilla

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Heterostropha
Superfamily:	Pyramidelloidea
Family:	Pyramidellidae
Subfamily:	Chrysallidinae
Genus:	Oscilla A. Adams, 1861

Oscilla is a genus of very small sea snails, minute marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks. It is currently placed in the the subfamily Chrysallidinae of the family Pyramidellidae.

These marine gastropods have shells which have intorted protoconchs.

1 Life history
2 Species of Oscilla
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Life history

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 likely to be ectoparasites.

Oscilla jocosa is possibly a parasite on Trochus erithreus (Mienis 2003).

[edit] Species of Oscilla

Oscilla cingulata (A. Adams, 1861) (Type species) (as Monoptygma (Oscilla) cingulata)
Oscilla beccarii (Hormung & Mermod, 1924)
Oscilla biseriata Gabb, 1881
Oscilla fallax Thiele, 1925
Oscilla gumia
Oscilla insculpta Carpenter
Oscilla jocosa Melvill, 1904
Oscilla laquearia
Oscilla leviplex
Oscilla lirata A. Adams
Oscilla migma
Oscilla niasensis Thiele, 1925
Oscilla obtusantis
Oscilla ongcopensis
Oscilla pupula Thiele, 1925
Oscilla sumatrana Thiele, 1925
Oscilla tricordata (Nomura, 1938)
Oscilla voorwindei (Laseron, 1959)

The European species have been revised by van Aartsen (1994).

[edit] References

Aartsen, J. J. van. (1994). "European Pyramidellidae: IV The Genera Eulimella, Anisocycla, Syrnola, Cingulina, Oscilla and Careliopsis.". Bollettino Malacologico 30: 85–110.
Adams, A. (1861). "On a new genus and some new species of Pyramidellidae from the North of China". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) (7): 295–299.
Mienis, H. K. (2003). "Is Oscilla jocosa an ectoparasite of Trochus erithreus? (Gastropoda, Pyramidellidae & Trochidae)". Triton 7: 1.