- Oscilla (gastropod)
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Oscilla 
Oscilla tricordata Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Heterobranchia
informal group Lower HeterobranchiaSuperfamily: Pyramidelloidea Subfamily: Chrysallidinae Genus: Oscilla
A. Adams, 1861Oscilla is a genus of very small sea snails, minute marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks. It is currently placed in the subfamily Chrysallidinae of the family Pyramidellidae.
These marine gastropods have shells which have intorted protoconchs.
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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 may possibly be a parasite on Trochus erithreus (Mienis 2003).
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).
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.
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