Pisania
Several representations of a shell of Pisania striata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Pisaniidae
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
  • Triton (Hilda) Hoernes & Auinger, 1884

Pisania is a genus of marine whelk in the family Pisaniidae.[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]

Taxon inquirendum

The Shell-bearing Mollusca database also adds the following names [12]

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. ^ "Mollusca/Gastropoda/Mesogastropoda & Neogastropoda". Schooner Specimen Shells. Pisania.
  13. ^ Pisania bernardoi Costa & dos Santos Gomes, 1998. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  14. ^ Pisania crocata. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  15. ^ Pisania d'orbignyi Payraudeau. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  16. ^ Pisania rubiginosa Reeve. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  17. ^ Pisania truncatus Hinds. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.