Egila is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of small sea snail

Sea snail

Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....

s, pyramidellid

Pyramidellidae

Pyramidellidae, common name the pyram family, or pyramid shells, is a voluminous taxonomic family of mostly small and minute ectoparasitic sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs....

 gastropod mollusks.

This genus is currently placed in the tribe Chrysallidini of the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Odostomiidae. It has both recent and fossil (Tertiary

Tertiary

The Tertiary is a deprecated term for a geologic period 65 million to 2.6 million years ago. The Tertiary covered the time span between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary...

) members.

Life habits

Little is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As is true of most members of the Pyramidellidae

Pyramidellidae

Pyramidellidae, common name the pyram family, or pyramid shells, is a voluminous taxonomic family of mostly small and minute ectoparasitic sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs....

 sensu lato, they are most likely to be ectoparasites.

Species

Species within the genus Egila include:

• Egila arcuata Laws, 1941
• Egila ektopa
  Egila ektopa
  Egila ektopa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.-External links:* *...
  
  Pimenta & Absalão, 2004
• Egila lacunata (Carpenter, 1857) - type species, as Odostomia (Parthenia) lacunata
• Egila mayii (Tate, 1898)
• Egila poppei (Dall & Bartsch, 1909)
• Egila univestis Laseron, 1959
• Egila virginiae
  Egila virginiae
  Egila virginiae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.-External links:* *...
  
  Altena, 1975
• ...

The species of Egila from Brazil have been reviewed by Piementa & Absalão (2004).