Oscilla is a genus of very small sea snails, minute marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks. This genus is currently placed in the subfamily Chrysallidinae of the family Pyramidellidae.[2]

Oscilla
Oscilla tricordata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Subcohort: Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Oscilla
A. Adams, 1861 [1]
Type species
Monoptygma cingulata A. Adams, 1861
Synonyms

Miralda (Oscilla) A. Adams, 1861

These marine gastropods have shells with intorted protoconchs.

Life history edit

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 edit

The following species are mentioned in WoRMS:

The following species are also mentioned in OBIS [4] and Malacolog [5]

Species brought into synonymy

The European species have been revised by van Aartsen (1994).

References edit

  1. ^ A. Adams, Zool. Proc., p. 310, 1867
  2. ^ Rosenberg, G.; Gofas, S. (2011). Oscilla A. Adams, 1861. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138415 on 6 July 2012
  3. ^ Dall & Bartsch, Notes on Japanese, Indo-Pacific and American Pyramidellidae; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol XXX n° 1452; 1906
  4. ^ OBIS : Miralda (Oscilla)
  5. ^ Malacolog : Oscilla
  6. ^ "Oscilla stupa". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  7. ^ Gastropods.com: Oscilla bosyuensis; retrieved: 28 January 32012
  • Vaught, K. C. (1989). In Abbott, R. T. & Boss, K. J. (eds) A Classification of the Living Mollusca. Melbourne, Florida: American Malacologists Inc. 195 pp.
  • 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.
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213

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