Pisania

Pisania
Several representations of a shell of Pisania striata
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]
  • Appisania Thiele, 1929
  • Ecmanis Gistel, 1848
  • Fusus (Pisania) Bivona-Bernardi, 1832
  • Jeannea Iredale, 1912
  • Pisania (Jeannea) Iredale, 1912 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Polliana Gray, 1850
  • Proboscidea Schmidt, 1832
  • Taeniola Dall, 1904
  • 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 [12]

The Shell-bearing Mollusca database also adds the following names [13]

Species inquerenda
Synonymized species

References

  1. "Nomenclator Zoologicus Record Detail". citing Effem. Sci. Lett. Sicilia, 2, 8. vol. 3, p. 769
  2. "Pisania (Pisania) Bivona, 1832". Indo-Pacific Molluscan Species Database. The Academy of Natural Sciences.
  3. Pisania Bivona-Bernardi, 1832.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 January 2011.
  4. Kantor YI, Harasewych MG (1994). "The Diet of Pisania tincta (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) in Eastern Florida". The Veliger 37 (1): 117–118. hdl:10088/8309.
  5. WoRMS : Pisania
  6. Pisania fasciculata (Reeve, 1846).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  7. Pisania ignea (Gmelin, 1790).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  8. Pisania luctuosa Tapparone-Canefri, 1880.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  9. Pisania pusio (Linnaeus, 1758).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  10. Pisania rosadoi Bozzetti & Ferrario, 2005.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  11. Pisania striata (Gmelin, 1791).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  12. "Pisania Bivona, 1832". OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Species Database. The Academy of Natural Sciences.
  13. "Mollusca/Gastropoda/Mesogastropoda & Neogastropoda". Schooner Specimen Shells. Pisania.
  14. Pisania bernardoi Costa & dos Santos Gomes, 1998.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  15. Pisania crocata .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  16. Pisania d'orbignyi Payraudeau.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  17. Pisania rubiginosa Reeve.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  18. Pisania truncatus Hinds.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.

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