Babella

Babella
	Apertural view of a shell of Babella caelatior
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subcohort:	Panpulmonata
Superfamily:	Pyramidelloidea
Family:	Pyramidellidae
Genus:	Babella; Dall & Bartsch, 1906
Type species
	Turbonilla (Babella) caelatior Dall & Bartsch, 1906;
Synonyms
	Chrysallida (Numaegilina) Nomura, 1938; Egilina (Numaegilina) Nomura, 1938; Numaegilina Nomura, 1938; Paregila Laseron, 1951; Turbonilla (Babella) Dall & Bartsch, 1906 (original rank);

Babella is a genus of very small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pyramidellidae within the tribe Chrysallidini (sensu taxonomy by Bouchet & Roctroi, 2005).^[2]

Description

The shell shows strong axial ribs between the sutures and three spiral keels, two of which are at the periphery, which falls in the deep sulcus between them, and one a little anterior to the middle of the base.^[1]

Distribution

The genus seems to be limited to tropical and temperate regions of the Pacific Ocean.

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.

Species

There are twelve known species within the genus Babella, these include:

Babella affectuosa (Yokoyama, 1927)
Babella caelatior (Dall & Bartsch, 1906) - synonym: Babella caelata (A. Adams, 1864)^[3]
Babella caledonica Peñas & Rolán, 2017
Babella ceciriana (Saurin, 1958)
Babella claudoni (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1907)
Babella crassicostata (Saurin, 1958)
Babella cylindrica (Saurin, 1958)
Babella funiculata (Saurin, 1961)
Babella gloria (Nomura, S., 1938)
Babella glycisma (Melvill, 1899)
Babella hastula (Saurin, 1961)
Babella khmeriana (Saurin, 1962)
Babella mariellaeformis (Nomura, 1938)
Babella obliquissima (Saurin, 1959)
Babella pallida Peñas & Rolán, 2017
Babella planispiralis Peñas & Rolán, 2017
Babella prominens Peñas & Rolán, 2017
Babella ventricosa (Saurin, 1958)
Babella yabei yabei Nomura 1936
- Babella yabei perarellia Nomura 1938

Species brought into synonymy

Babella bartschi (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906): synonym of Egilina callista (Melvill, 1893)
Babella caelata (A. Adams, 1863): synonym of Babella caelatior (Dall & Bartsch, 1906)

References

^ ^a ^b Dall W. H. & Bartsch P. (1906). "Notes on Japanese, Indopacific and American Pyramidellidae". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 30 (20): 321–369, plates 17–26. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.30-1452.321. page 347.
^ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2018). Babella Dall & Bartsch, 1906. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=588302 on 2018-01-08
^ Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Babella caelatior (Dall & Bartsch, 1906). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=588304 on 2018-01-08

Peñas A. & Rolán E. (2017). Deep water Pyramidelloidea from the central and South Pacific. The tribe Chrysallidini. ECIMAT (Estación de Ciencias Mariñas de Toralla) - Universidade de Vigo, 412 pp

External links

[Dall-1] Dall W. H. & Bartsch P. (1906). "Notes on Japanese, Indopacific and American Pyramidellidae". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 30 (20): 321–369, plates 17–26. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.30-1452.321. page 347.

[WoRMS-2] Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2018). Babella Dall & Bartsch, 1906. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=588302 on 2018-01-08

[3] Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Babella caelatior (Dall & Bartsch, 1906). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=588304 on 2018-01-08

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