Egila

Taxobox
name = "Egila"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
ordo = Heterostropha
superfamilia = Pyramidelloidea
familia = Pyramidellidae
subfamilia = Chrysallidinae
genus = "Egila"
genus_authority = Dall & Bartsch, 1904
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"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.

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.

pecies 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
* ...

The species of "Egila" from Brazil have been reviewed by Piementa & Absalo (2004)

References

*cite book
last = Carpenter
first = P. P.
title = Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells in the British Museum collected by Frederik Reigen
publisher = London
date = 1857
pages = 552 pp
month =
isbn =
* cite journal
author = Dall, W. H. & Bartsch, P
year = 1904
date=
title = Synopsis of genera, subgenera, and sections of the family Pyramidellidae
journal = Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington
volume = 17
issue =
pages = 1–16
issn =
doi =
* cite journal
author = Piementa, A. D. & Absalo, R. S.
year = 2004
date=
title = Review of the genera "Eulimastoma" Bartsch, 1916 and "Egila" Dall & Bartsch, 1904 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pyramidellidae) from Brazil
journal = Zoosystema
volume = 26
issue = 2
pages = 157–173
issn =
doi =

External links

* [http://www.gastropods.com/4/Shell_45474.html "Egila ektopa"]