Pelseneeria

Pelseneeria
Shell of Pelseneeria striata (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Vanikoroidea
Family:	Eulimidae
Genus:	Pelseneeria Koehler & Vaney, 1908
Type species
Pelseneeria profunda Koehler & Vaney, 1908
Synonyms
Parastilifer A. V. Ivanov, 1952 Rosenia Nierstrasz, 1913 (non Waagen & Wentzel, 1886) Stylina Fleming, 1828 (non Lamarck, 1816) Turtonia Rosén, 1910 (non Alder, 1848) Venustilifer Powell, 1939

Pelseneeria is a genus of very small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Eulimidae. This genus was first described by R. Koehler and C. Vaney in 1908.^[1]

Species[]

Species within the genera Pelseneeria include:^[1]

• Pelseneeria bountyensis Powell, 1933
• Tate, 1887
• Dall, 1925
• Warén, B. L. Burch & T. A. Burch, 1984
• Koehler & Vaney, 1908
• Koehler & Vaney, 1908
• Dall, 1927
• Dall, 1925
• Koehler & Vaney, 1908 (Type taxon)
• Powell, 1940
• † Lozouet, 1999
• Schepman & Nierstrasz, 1909
• A. E. Verrill, 1872
• Bouchet & Warén, 1986
• Turton, 1825
• Pastorino & Zelaya, 2001
• Winckworth, 1936
• Habe, 1952

Species brought into synonymy

• Pelseneeria globosus (Johnston, 1841): synonym of Pelseneeria stylifera (Turton, 1825)
• Pelseneeria secundus [sic]: synonym of Pelseneeria secunda (Powell, 1940)
• Pelseneeria turtoni (Broderip, 1832): synonym of Pelseneeria stylifera (Turton, 1825)
• Pelseneeria verrilli (Dall, 1927): synonym of Pelseneeria stimpsonii (A. E. Verrill, 1872)

References[]

• Koehler R. & Vaney C. (1908). Description d'un nouveau genre de Prosobranches parasite sur certains Echinides. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique de Monaco 118: 1-16
• Winckworth, R. (1932). The British marine Mollusca. Journal of Conchology. 19 (7): 211-252.
• Ivanov, 1952 [Trudy Leningradskogo Obshchestva Estestvoispytatelei, Otdelenie Zoologii, 71(4): 134].
• Powell, 1939 : Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 2(4): 234
• Warén, A. (1984). A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies. suppl 13: 1-96. page(s): 64

Further reading[]

• Waren, Anders (1980). "Revision of the Genera Thyca, Stilifer, Scalenostoma, Mucronalia and Echineulima (Mollusca, Prosobranchia, Eulimidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 9: 187. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1980.tb00663.x.

External links[]

• Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan. Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda.
• Marine Species Identification Portal

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