Niso
Encyclopedia
Niso is a genus
of very small parasitic sea snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
s in the family
Eulimidae
.
(WoRMS) the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Niso
The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database (OBIS) also adds the following species :
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 very small parasitic sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
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gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
Micromollusk
A micromollusk is a descriptive term for a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also reach adult size at very small...
s in 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...
Eulimidae
Eulimidae
Eulimidae is a family of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Eulimoidea.These small snails live on or in echinoderms and have a proboscis which they extend into their host's body cavity.-Genera:...
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Species
According to the World Register of Marine SpeciesWorld Register of Marine Species
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(WoRMS) the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Niso
- Niso aeglees Bush, 1885
- Niso albida Dall, 1889
- Niso chevreuxi Dautzenberg, 1891
- Niso circinata Dall, 1889
- Niso foresti Bouchet & Warén, 1986
- Niso hendersoni Bartsch, 1953
- Niso imbricata (Sowerby, 1834)
- Niso lomana Bartsch, 1917
- Niso microforis Dall, 1927
- Niso portoricensis Dall & Simpson, 1901
- Niso tricolor Dall, 1889
- Niso venosa Sowerby, 1895
The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database (OBIS) also adds the following species :
- Niso balteata Sowerby, 1900
- Niso brunnea (Sowerby I, 1834)
- Niso dorcas Kuroda & Habe, 1950
- Niso goniostoma A. Adams, 1854 in H. & A. Adams, 1853-58
- Niso hizenensis Kuroda & Habe, 1950-d
- Niso matsumotoi Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1961
- Niso mucronetincta Thiele, 1925
- Niso regia Kuroda & Habe, 1950
- Niso rubropicta Habe, 1975
- Niso smithi Schepman, 1909
- Niso stenomphala Kuroda & Habe, 1950
- Niso tetuakii Habe, 1949
- Niso yokoyamai Kuroda & Habe, 1950