Folinella

Taxobox
name = "Folinella"


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

"Folinella" is a small genus of sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusk or micromollusks. This genus is currently placed in the subfamily Chrysallidinae of the family Odostomiidae.

The genus had two preoccupied names - "Amoura" De Folin, 1873 "not" J.E. Gray 1847, and "Funicularia" Monterosato, 1884 "not" Forbes, 1845.

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 ectoparasites.

pecies within the genus "Folinella"

* "Folinella anguliferens" (De Folin in De Folin & Périer, 1873) (Type species) (as "Amoura anguliferens")
* "Folinella excavata" (Phillippi, 1836)
* "Folinella ghisotti" van Aartsen, 1984
* "Folinella holthuisi" van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998
* "Folinella moolenbeeki" van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998

References

* 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 = De Folin, L. & Périer, L.
year = 1867-1887
date=
title =
journal = Les Fonds de la Mer, etudes internationale sur les perticularities nouvelles des regions sous-marines
volume = 1-4
issue =
pages =
issn =
doi =

External links

* [http://shellauction.net/auction_shell.php?id=163278&pres=1"Folinella ghisotti"]
* [http://www.shellauction.net/auction_shell.php?id=135909&pres=1"Folinella excavata"]
* [http://www.gastropods.com/4/Shell_6144.html"Folinella excavata"]
* [http://www.jaxshells.org/1206b.htm"Folinella sp."]