Pellasimnia angasi

Pellasimnia angasi
Live animal amongst coral (top) and views of shells (bottom)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Ovulidae
Genus: Pellasimnia
Species:
P. angasi
Binomial name
Pellasimnia angasi
(Reeve, 1865)
Synonyms[1]
List
  • Aclyvolva haynesi (Sowerby, 1889)
  • Aclyvolva lamyi (Schilder, 1932)
  • Neosimnia lamyi Schilder, 1932
  • Neosimnia subreflexa Allan, 1956
  • Ovulum angasi Reeve, 1865
  • Ovulum haynesi Sowerby, 1889
  • Pellasimnia angasi (Reeve, 1865)
  • Phenacovolva angasi Reeve, 1865)
  • Phenacovolva exsul Iredale, 1935
  • Phenacovolva haynesi (G. B. Sowerby III, 1889)
  • Volva haynesi (G. B. Sowerby III, 1889)

Pellasimnia angasi, commonly known as Angas's volva, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 38 mm.

Distribution

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Japan and Australia.

References

  1. ^ a b Pellasimnia angasi (Reeve, 1865). WoRMS (2009). Pellasimnia angasi (Reeve, 1865). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=431083 on 22 October 2011 .
  • Schilder, F.A., 1932. The living species of Amphiperatinae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 20 (1): 46–64
  • Cate, C. N. 1973. A systematic revision of the recent Cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger 15 (supplement): 1–117
  • Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks.
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