Babella
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| Babella | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Babella caelatior | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subcohort: | Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Pyramidelloidea |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Genus: | Babella Dall & Bartsch, 1906[1] |
| Type species | |
| Turbonilla (Babella) caelatior Dall & Bartsch, 1906 | |
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Babella is a genus of very small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pyramidellidae within the tribe Chrysallidini (sensu taxonomy by Bouchet & Roctroi, 2005).[2]
Distribution
The genus seems to be limited to tropical and temperate regions of the Pacific Ocean.
Life habits
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 ectoparasites.
