Chrysallidini

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Tribe of molluscs

title: "Chrysallidini" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["pyramidellidae", "protostome-tribes"] description: "Tribe of molluscs" topic_path: "general/pyramidellidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysallidini" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Tribe of molluscs ::

| image = Babella caelata 001.png | image_caption = Babella caelatior shell | taxon = Chrysallidini | authority = Saurin, 1958{{cite journal | author = Saurin, E. | year = 1958 | title = Pyramidellidae de Pho-Hai (Sud Viet-Nam) | journal = Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Saigon | volume =35 | issue = | pages = 63–86 | issn = | doi = | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text

Chrysallidinae is a taxonomic group of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.

Taxonomy

Chrysallidinae has been one of eleven recognized subfamilies of the gastropod family Pyramidellidae (according to the taxonomy of Ponder & Lindberg 1997).{{cite journal |author1=Ponder, W.F. |author2=Lindberg, D. R. | year = 1997 | title = Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs: an analysis using morphological characters | journal = Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | volume =119 | issue = 2 | pages = 88–265 | doi =10.1111/j.1096-3642.1997.tb00137.x | doi-access =free

According to Schander, Van Aartsen & Corgan (1999) there are 47 genera in this subfamily, four additional genera may also be a part of this taxon.{{cite journal | author = Schander, C., van Aartsen, J. J., Corgan, J. C. | year = 1999 | title = Families and genera of the Pyramidelloidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) | journal = Bollettino Malacologico | volume =34 | issue = 9–12 | pages = 145–166 | issn = | doi =

In the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), this subfamily has been downgraded to the rank of tribe Chrysallidini in the subfamily Odostomiinae.

Genera

Genera in the subfamily Chrysallidinae include:

Possible extra genera

Genera likely to reside in the subfamily Chrysallidinae include:

Distribution

This family is found worldwide, from the tropics to the Arctic.

Shell description

The shell of these snails has a blunt, heterostrophic protoconch, which is often wrapped up. The texture of these shells is sculptured in various forms such as ribs and spirals. Their color is mostly white, cream or yellowish. The teleoconch is dextrally coiled, but the larval shells are sinistral. This results in a sinistrally coiled protoconch. The columella has one, spiral fold. The aperture is closed by an operculum.

Life habits

The Chrysallidinae are ectoparasites, feeding mainly on other molluscs and on annelid worms.

They do not have a radula. Instead their long proboscis is used to pierce the skin of its prey and suck up its fluids and soft tissues. The eyes on the grooved tentacles are situated toward the base of the tentacles. Between the head and the foot, a lobed process called the mentum ( = thin projection) is visible.

These molluscs are hermaphrodites, laying eggs in jelly-like masses on the shell of its host.

References

References

  1. {{Bouchet 2005

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