Pellasimnia
Sign in to savePellasimnia is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Ovulinae of the family Ovulidae, sometimes known as the false cowries and the cowry allies.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyOvulidae
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- Specimen records
- 33
- Family
- Ovulidae
- Collections
- TMAG, WAM, SBMNH, NMV, MNHN, MAGNT
- Recorded in
- Australia, Thailand, Philippines, Iles Fidji, Solomon Islands, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, India
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Pellasimnia is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Ovulinae of the family Ovulidae, sometimes known as the false cowries and the cowry allies.
==Species== According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Pellasimnia : Pellasimnia angasi (Reeve, 1865) - the type species of the genus Pellasimnia annabelae Lorenz & Fehse, 2009 Pellasimnia brunneiterma (Cate, 1969) Pellasimnia cleaveri Lorenz & Fehse, 2009 Pellasimnia hochmuthi Lorenz & Fehse, 2009 Pellasimnia improcera (Azuma & Cate, 1971) † Pellasimnia maxwelli Beu & B. A. Marshall, 2011 Pellasimnia mcoyi (Tenison-Woods, 1878) Species brought into synonymy: Pellasimnia aurantia Carlsson, 1969: synonym of Phenacovolva aurantia (Sowerby, 1889) Pellasimnia exsul Iredale, 1935: synonym of Pellasimnia maccoyi (Tenison-Woods, 1878) Pellasimnia verconis Cotton & Godfrey, 1932: synonym of Cuspivolva helenae (Cate, 1973)
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