Perrinia stellata

Perrinia stellata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Seguenzioidea
Family:	Chilodontidae
Genus:	Perrinia
Species:	P. stellata
Binomial name
	Perrinia stellata; (A. Adams, 1864)
Synonyms
	Solarium abyssorum Melvill, J.C. & R. Standen, 1903; Tectaria armata Issel, A., 1869; Turcica stellata A. Adams, 1864 (basionym);

Perrinia stellata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chilodontidae .^[1]

Description[]

The shell size varies between 9 mm to 17 mm

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean.

Kilburn, R.N. (1977) Taxonomic studies on the marine Mollusca of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 1. Annals of the Natal Museum, 23, 173–214.
Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp
Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
Reid D.G. (2007) The genus Echinolittorina Habe, 1956 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 1420: 1–161
Herbert D.G. (2012) A revision of the Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) of southern Africa and the south-western Indian Ocean. African Invertebrates, 53(2): 381–502.

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