Pisania

Pisania
Pisania billeheusti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Pisania
Bivona-Bernardi, 1832 [1]
Type species
Pisania striatula Bivona-Bernardi, A., 1832
Synonyms[2]
  • Proboscidea Schmidt, 1832
  • Ecmanis Gistel, 1848
  • Polliana Gray, 1850
  • Taeniola Dall, 1904
  • Jeannea Iredale, 1912
  • Appisania Thiele, 1929
  • Sukunaia Cernohorsky, 1966

Pisania is a genus of marine whelk in the family Buccinidae.[3] Some species prey on barnacles.[4]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) species with accepted names within the genus Pisania include: [5]

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan database also includes the following species with names in current use [15]

The Shell-bearing Mollusca database also adds the following names [16]

Synonymized species 

References

  1. ^ Effem. Sci. Lett. Sicilia, 2, 8.
  2. ^ OBIS : Pisania
  3. ^ Pisania Bivona-Bernardi, 1832.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137711 on 18 January 2011.
  4. ^ http://hdl.handle.net/10088/8309
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  5. ^ WoRMS : Pisania
  6. ^ Pisania bernardoi Costa & dos Santos Gomes, 1998.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=457146 on 17 April 2010.
  7. ^ Pisania crocata .  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215671 on 17 April 2010.
  8. ^ Pisania fasciculata (Reeve, 1846).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215672 on 17 April 2010.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Pisania luctuosa Tapparone-Canefri, 1880.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215669 on 17 April 2010.
  11. ^ Pisania pusio (Linnaeus, 1758).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=419978 on 17 April 2010.
  12. ^ Pisania rosadoi Bozzetti & Ferrario, 2005.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=389263 on 17 April 2010.
  13. ^ Pisania striata (Gmelin, 1791).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138924 on 17 April 2010.
  14. ^ Pisania truncatus Hinds.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215670 on 17 April 2010.
  15. ^ OBIS : Pisania
  16. ^ Shell-bearing Mollusqca : Pisania
  17. ^ Pisania d'orbignyi Payraudeau.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224473 on 17 April 2010.
  18. ^ Pisania rubiginosa Reeve.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215673 on 17 April 2010.