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Pisania
Sign in to savePisania is a genus of marine whelk in the family Pisaniidae. Some species prey on barnacles.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyPisaniidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 965
- With media
- 207
- Family
- Pisaniidae
- Collections
- FMNH, UF, USNM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, NCSM, UCMP
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, Indonesia, Madagascar, Panama, United Kingdom, Mauritius, South Africa
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- Pisania billeheusti 002.jpg
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Pisania is a genus of marine whelk in the family Pisaniidae. Some species prey on barnacles.
==Species== According to the World Register of Marine Species (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 (Reeve, 1846) Pisania gracilis (Sowerby, 1859) Pisania hedleyi (Iredale, 1912) Pisania hermannseni A. Adams, 1855 Pisania ignea (Gmelin, 1790) Pisania jenningsi (Cernohorsky, 1966) Pisania lirocincta G.B. Sowerby III, 1910 Pisania luctuosa 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
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