Pisania ignea

Pisania ignea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Pisania
Species: P. ignea
Binomial name
Pisania ignea
(Gmelin, 1790)
Synonyms[1]

Buccinum igneum Gmelin, 1790

Pisania ignea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]

Contents

Description

Distribution

References

  1. ^ a b Pisania ignea (Gmelin, 1790).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215674 on 17 April 2010.