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Hydroginella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Marginellidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Muricoidea

Subfamily
  
Marginellinae

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Hydroginella is a genus of marginellid minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.

Hydroginella caledonica (Jousseaume, 1876) can parasitize sleeping fishes of the families Scaridae, Serranidae and Pomacentridae at coral reefs in New Caledonia by night. This snail is able to inserts its proboscis in the fish fleash and probably pumps some body fluids.

Species

Species within the genus Hydroginella include:

  • Hydroginella angustata Boyer, Wakefield & McCleery, 2003
  • Hydroginella bullata Boyer, Wakefield & McCleery, 2003
  • Hydroginella galatea Lussi & Smith, 1999
  • Hydroginella gemella Boyer, 2001
  • Hydroginella marina Lorenz & Kostin, 2007
  • Hydroginella musorstomi Boyer, Wakefield & McCleery, 2003
  • Hydroginella richeri Boyer, 2001
  • Hydroginella roselineae Cossignani, 2009
  • Hydroginella rugosa Boyer, Wakefield & McCleery, 2003
  • Hydroginella tuii Cossignani, 2001
  • Hydroginella unica Boyer, Wakefield & McCleery, 2003
  • Hydroginella vitiensis Boyer, Wakefield & McCleery, 2003
  • Hydroginella wareni Boyer, Wakefield & McCleery, 2003

    • References

    Hydroginella Wikipedia
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