''Pisania'' is a
genus
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of marine whelk in the
family
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Pisaniidae
The Pisaniidae are a taxonomic family of medium-sized sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classifi ...
.
Some species prey on barnacles.
Species
According to the
World Register of Marine Species
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive catalogue and list of names of marine organisms.
Content
The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scien ...
(WoRMS) species with accepted names within the genus ''Pisania'' include:
* ''
Pisania angusta''
Smith, 1899
* ''
Pisania bilirata''
(Reeve, 1846)
* ''
Pisania costata''
Thiele, 1925
* ''
Pisania decollata''
(Sowerby I, 1833)
* ''
Pisania fasciculata
''Pisania fasciculata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pisaniidae, first described in 1846 by Lovell Augustus Reeve as ''Buccinum fasciculatum.''
Description
The length of the shell attains 19.5 mm.
Distr ...
''
(Reeve, 1846)
* ''
Pisania gracilis''
(Sowerby, 1859)
* ''
Pisania hedleyi''
(Iredale, 1912)
* ''
Pisania hermannseni''
A. Adams, 1855
* ''
Pisania ignea
''Pisania ignea'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Pisaniidae.
Description
Pisania ignea is classified as gastropoda caenogastropoda, Its size ranges from 20 to 52 mm.
Distribution
Western ...
''
(Gmelin, 1790)
* ''
Pisania jenningsi''
(Cernohorsky, 1966)
* ''
Pisania lirocincta''
G.B. Sowerby III, 1910
* ''
Pisania luctuosa
''Pisania luctuosa'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Pisaniidae.
Description
Distribution
References
* Drivas, J.; Jay, M. (1987). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Ma ...
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Tapparone-Canefri, 1880
* † ''
Pisania magna''
Foresti, 1868
* † ''
Pisania mariavictoriae''
Brunetti & Della Bella, 2016
* † ''
Pisania plioangustata''
Sacco, 1904
* ''
Pisania pusio''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''
Pisania rosadoi''
Bozzetti & Ferrario, 2005
* ''
Pisania scholvieni''
Rolle, 1892
*''
Pisania solomonensis''
E.A.Smith, 1876
* ''
Pisania striata''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* ''
Pisania sugimotoi''
(Habe, 1968)
* † ''
Pisania transsylvanica''
(Hoernes & Auinger, 1884)
* ''
Pisania tritonoides''
(Reeve, 1846)
*
Pisania unicolor''
(Angas, 1876)
;Taxon inquirendum:
* ''
Pisania amphodon''
van Martens, 1880
* ''
Pisania strigata''
Pease, 1863
The Shell-bearing Mollusca database also adds the following names
* ''
Pisania australis''
W. H. Pease, 1871 Australia
* ''
Pisania brevialaxe''
T. Kuroda & T. Habe, 1961 Australia
* ''
Pisania clathrata''
Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906 Morocco
* ''
Pisania grimaldii''
Ph. Dautzenberg, 1889 Australia
; Synonymized species:
* ''Pisania aequilirata''
Carpenter, 1857: synonym of ''
Pusio elegans''
(Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
* ''Pisania auritula''
Link, 1807 East America : synonym of ''
Gemophos auritulus
''Gemophos auritulus'', the common cantharus or gaudy cantharus, is a species of sea snail in the family Pisaniidae.
Description
The length of the shell varies between 19 mm and 35 mm.
The ovate shell is thick, solid and bi-conical. ...
''
(Link, 1807)
* † ''Pisania baetica''
Lozano-Francisco & Vera-Peláez, 2006 : synonym of † ''
Pisania magna''
Foresti, 1868
* ''Pisania bednalli''
G. B. Sowerby III, 1895: synonym of ''
Pollia bednalli''
(G. B. Sowerby III, 1895) (original combination)
* ''Pisania bernardoi''
Costa & dos Santos Gomes, 1998: synonym of ''
Dianthiphos bernardoi''
(Costa & Gomes, 1998)
* ''Pisania billeheusti''
Petit, 1946 Hawaiian Islands: synonym of ''
Prodotia iostoma
''Prodotia iostoma'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Prodotiidae.
Description
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra and the Mascarenes; also off New Caledonia and New Zeal ...
'' (Gray, 1834)
* ''Pisania cingulata''
(Reeve, 1846): synonym of ''
Japeuthria cingulata''
(Reeve, 1846)
* ''Pisania cingulatum''(sic): synonym of ''
Japeuthria cingulata'' (Reeve, 1846)
* ''Pisania crenilabrum'' A. Adams, 1855: synonym of ''
Pisania fasciculata
''Pisania fasciculata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pisaniidae, first described in 1846 by Lovell Augustus Reeve as ''Buccinum fasciculatum.''
Description
The length of the shell attains 19.5 mm.
Distr ...
'' (Reeve, 1846)
* ''Pisania crocata'' (Reeve, 1846): synonym of ''
Prodotia crocata
''Prodotia crocata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Prodotiidae.
Description
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off the Mascarene Basin and Mauritius
Mauritius, officially the Repu ...
'' (Reeve, 1846)
* ''Pisania dorbignyi''
Payraudeau, 1826: synonym of ''
Pollia dorbignyi
''Aplus dorbignyi'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Pisaniidae.
Description
The shell size varies between 10 mm and 20 mm. This shell is quite variable in pattern and shape. Usuall ...
''
(Payraudeau, 1826): synonym of ''
Aplus dorbignyi
''Aplus dorbignyi'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pisaniidae.
Description
The shell size varies between 10 mm and 20 mm. This shell is quite variable in pattern and shape. Usually it is quite elon ...
''
(Payraudeau, 1826)
* ''Pisania englerti''
Hertlein, 1960: synonym of ''
Caducifer englerti''
(Hertlein, 1960)
* ''Pisania ferrea''
(L. A. Reeve, 1847) Indo-Pacific: synonym of ''
Japeuthria ferrea
''Japeuthria'' is a monospecific genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae
The Buccinidae are a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks.Bouchet, P.; Gof ...
''
(Reeve, 1847)
* ''Pisania flavescens''
Hutton, 1884: synonym of ''Buccinulum vittatum vittatum''
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) represented as ''
Buccinulum vittatum
''Buccinulum vittatum'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tudiclidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Buccinulum vittatum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: htt ...
''
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
* ''Pisania fortis''
Carpenter, 1866: synonym of †''
Pusio fortis''
(Carpenter, 1866) (original combination)
* ''Pisania gaskelli''
Melvill, 1891 : synonym of ''
Orania gaskelli''
(Melvill, 1891)
* ''Pisania gracilis''
(Reeve, 1846): synonym of ''
Prodotia lannumi
''Prodotia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Prodotiidae
The Prodotiidae are a taxonomic family of sea snails, often known as whelk
Whelks are any of several carnivorous sea snail species with a swirling, ...
''
(Schwengel, 1950)
* ''Pisania janeirensis''
(Philippi, 1849): synonym of ''Pisania pusio''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Pisania karinae''
(Nowell-Usticke, 1959): synonym of ''
Hesperisternia karinae
''Hesperisternia karinae'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pisaniidae
The Pisaniidae are a taxonomic family of medium-sized sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusc ...
''
(Nowell-Usticke, 1959)
* ''Pisania laevigata''
Bivona-Bernardi, 1832: synonym of''
Mitrella scripta''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Pisania maculosa''
(Lamarck, 1822): synonym of ''Pisania striata''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* † ''Pisania media''
Hutton, 1885 : synonym of † ''
Buccinulum medium''
(Hutton, 1885)
* ''Pisania mollis''
A. A. Gould, 1860 Indo-Pacific: synonym of ''
Pollia mollis''
(Gould, 1860) (original combination)
* ''Pisania montrouzieri''
Crosse, 1862: synonym of ''Pisania fasciculata''
(Reeve, 1846)
* ''Pisania naevosa''
Martens, 1880: synonym of ''Prodotia naevosa''
(Martens, 1880) (original combination); synonym of ''
Sinetectula naevosa''
(E. von Martens, 1880) (original combination)
* ''Pisania nodulosa''
Bivona Ant., 1832: synonym of ''
Pollia dorbignyi
''Aplus dorbignyi'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Pisaniidae.
Description
The shell size varies between 10 mm and 20 mm. This shell is quite variable in pattern and shape. Usuall ...
''
(Payraudeau, 1826)
* ''Pisania orbignyi''
ic synonym of ''
Aplus dorbignyi
''Aplus dorbignyi'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pisaniidae.
Description
The shell size varies between 10 mm and 20 mm. This shell is quite variable in pattern and shape. Usually it is quite elon ...
''
(Payraudeau, 1826) (incorrect subsequent spelling of dorbignyi (Payraudeau, 1826))
* † ''Pisania plioalboranensis''
Lozano-Francisco & Vera-Peláez, 2006 : synonym of † ''
Pisania plioangustata''
Sacco, 1904
* ''Pisania reticulata''
A. Adams, 1855: synonym of ''Cumia mestayerae''
(Iredale, 1915) (invalid: secondary homonym of ''Colubraria'' or ''
Cumia reticulata''
(Blainville, 1829); ''Fusus mestayerae'' is a replacement name)
* ''Pisania rubiginosa''
Reeve, 1846: synonym of ''
Pollia rubiginosa
''Pollia rubiginosa'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pisaniidae.
Description
The shell size varies between 20 mm and 30 mm
Distribution
This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off ...
''
(Reeve, 1846)
* ''Pisania schoutanica''
May, 1910 synonym of ''
Fusus schoutanicus''
(May, 1910)
* ''Pisania striatula''
Bivona-Bernardi, 1832: synonym of ''Pisania striata''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* ''Pisania tinctus''
(T. A. Conrad, 1846) East America: synonym of ''
Gemophos tinctus
''Gemophos tinctus'', the tinted cantharus, painted cantharus, or gaudy lesser whelk, is a species of sea snail in the family Pisaniidae.
Description
The size of the shell varies between 19 mm and 32 mm.feeds on smal algae
Distrib ...
''
(Conrad, 1846)÷
* ''Pisania townsendi''
Melvill, 1918: synonym of ''
Prodotia townsendi
''Prodotia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Prodotiidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Prodotia'' include:
* ''Prodotia castanea'' (Melvill, 1912)
* ''Prodotia crocata'' (Reeve, 1846)
* ''Prodotia iostoma' ...
''
(Melvill, 1918)
* ''Pisania truncatus''
Hinds, 1844:
synonym of ''
Caducifer truncatus''
(Hinds, 1844)
References
* Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). ''Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification''. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
External links
Bivona-Bernardi Ant. 1832. ''Caratteri d'un nuovo genere di conchiglie della famiglia delle Columellarie del Signor de Lamarck.'' Effemeride Scientifiche e Letterarie per la Sicilia 2(1): 8-13Iredale, T. (1912). New generic names and new species of marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 10(3): 217-228, pl. 9 Cernohorsky, W. O. (1966). A new genus and species of Buccinidae from the Fiji Islands (Mollusca: Gastropoda). The Veliger. 9(2): 229-232Dall, W. H. (1904). An historical and systematic review of the frogshells and tritons. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 47: 114-144
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