Pellasimnia
| Pellasimnia brunneiterma | |
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| A live individual of Pellasimnia brunneiterma on a soft coral | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Ovulidae |
| Subfamily: | Ovulinae |
| Genus: | Pellasimnia Iredale, 1931[1] |
Pellasimnia is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, sometimes known as the false cowries and the cowry allies. [2]
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Pellasimnia : [3]
- Pellasimnia angasi (Reeve, 1865) - the type species of the genus
- Pellasimnia annabelae Lorenz & Fehse, 2009
- Pellasimnia brunneiterma (Cate, 1969)[4]
- Pellasimnia cleaveri Lorenz & Fehse, 2009
- Pellasimnia hochmuthi Lorenz & Fehse, 2009
- Pellasimnia improcera (Azuma & Cate, 1971)
- Pellasimnia maccoyi (Tenison-Woods, 1878)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Pellasimnia aurantia Carlsson, 1969: synonym of Phenacovolva aurantia (Sowerby III, 1889)
- Pellasimnia exsul Iredale, 1935: synonym of Pellasimnia maccoyi (Tenison-Woods, 1878)
- Pellasimnia verconis Cotton & Godfrey, 1932: synonym of Cuspivolva helenae (Cate, 1973)
References
- ↑ Iredale T. (1931). Rec. Australian Mus. 18: 222.
- ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2010). Pellasimnia Iredale, 1931. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=430504 on 2012-07-31
- ↑ WoRMS : Pellasimnia
- ↑ WoRMS (2009). Pellasimnia brunneiterma (Cate, 1969). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=431159 on 2010-05-24