Palisadia

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Palisadia is a genus of parasitic sea snails. They are marine gastropods in the family Eulimidae. The genus was named by Laseron in 1956, and its type species is Palisadia subulata, also described by Laseron in 1956. Palisadia snails live in the Red Sea and off Christmas Island. A shell image exists for Palisadia dockeryi, with the holotype kept at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) in Paris.

Taxonomy:
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Gastropoda
- Subclass: Caenogastropoda
- Order: Littorinimorpha
- Superfamily: Vanikoroidea
- Family: Eulimidae
- Genus: Palisadia (Laseron, 1956)