Pyrene (gastropod)

Pyrene
shells of Pyrene punctata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Columbellidae
Subfamily:	Atiliinae
Genus:	Pyrene Röding, 1798
Species
See text
Synonyms
Columbella (Conidea) Swainson, 1840

Pyrene is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Columbellidae. ^[1]

Species

Pyrene marmorata

Species within the genus Pyrene include:

• Pyrene albinodulosa ogasawarana (Pilsbry, 1904-b)
• Pyrene aspersa (Sowerby, 1844)
• Pyrene decussata (Sowerby I, 1844)
• Pyrene exima (Reeve, 1859 in 1843-65)
• Pyrene fasciata Sowerby, 1825
• Pyrene flava (Bruguière, 1789)
• Pyrene marmorata (Gray, 1839) - probably synonym of Pardalinops marmorata^[2]
• Pyrene minuscula (Gould, 1860 in 1859-60)
• Pyrene obscura (Sowerby, 1844)
• Pyrene obtusa (Sowerby, 1832)
• Pyrene ocellatula (Hervier, 1899)
• Pyrene phaula (Melvill & Standen, 1901)
• Pyrene picta (Reeve, 1859)
• Pyrene propinqua (E.A. Smith, 1891)
• Pyrene pudica (Brazier, 1877)
• Pyrene punctata (Bruguière, 1789)
• Pyrene purpurea (H. Adams, 1873)
• Pyrene sorongensis Van Bruggen, 1956
• Pyrene splendidula Sowerby, 1894

Species brought into synonymy 

• Pyrene aikeni Lussi, 2009: synonym of Sulcomitrella aikeni (Lussi, 2009)
• Pyrene albuginosa (Reeve, 1859) : synonym of Mitrella albuginosa (Reeve, 1859)
• Pyrene bella (Reeve, 1859): synonym of Mitrella albuginosa (Reeve, 1859)
• Pyrene bidentata (Menke, 1843): synonym of Euplica bidentata (Menke, 1843)
• Pyrene deshayesii (Crosse, 1859): synonym of Euplica deshayesii (Crosse, 1859)
• Pyrene floccata (Reeve, 1859): synonym of Mitrella floccata (Reeve, 1859)
• Pyrene freytagi (Maltzan, 1884): synonym of Anachis freytagi (Maltzan, 1884)
• Pyrene kraussi (Sowerby, 1844): synonym of Anachis kraussi (G.B. Sowerby, 1844)
• Pyrene ligula (Duclos, 1835): synonym of Mitrella ligula (Duclos, 1835)
• Pyrene mindorensis (Reeve, 1859): synonym of Mitrella mindorensis (Reeve, 1859)
• Pyrene moleculina (Duclos, 1840): synonym of Mitrella moleculina (Duclos, 1840)
• Pyrene morrisoni Willan, 2001: synonym of Pyrene punctata (Bruguière, 1789)
• Pyrene natalensis (Tomlin, 1926): synonym of Mitrella natalensis Tomlin, 1926
• Pyrene ocellata (Link, 1807): synonym of Pictocolumbella ocellata (Link, 1807)
• Pyrene parvula (Dunker, 1847): synonym of Mitrella dichroa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1844)
• Pyrene philippinarum Récluz, 1843 - synonym: Parametaria philippinarum Reeve, 1842
• Pyrene scripta (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Mitrella scripta (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Pyrene selasphora (Melvill & Standen, 1901): synonym of Zafra selasphora (Melvill & Standen, 1901)
• Pyrene tankervillei (Hervier, 1899): synonym of Pyrene obtusa (G.B. Sowerby, 1832)
• Pyrene testudinaria (Link, 1807): synonym of Pardalinops testudinaria (Link, 1807)
• Pyrene turturina (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Euplica turturina (Lamarck, 1822)
• Pyrene tylerae (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834): synonym of Pardalinops testudinaria (Link, 1807)
• Pyrene varians (G.B. Sowerby II, 1832): synonym of Euplica varians (G.B. Sowerby, 1832)
• Pyrene versicolor (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832): synonym of Euplica scripta (Lamarck, 1822)
• Pyrene zebra (Wood, 1828): synonym of Anachis miser (G. B. Sowerby I, 1844)

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2014). Pyrene Röding, 1798. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204994 on 2014-05-29
2. M. deMaintenon, Part 14. The Columbellidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) collected at Ambon during the Rumphius Biohistorical Expedition

• OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp