Pellasimnia

Pellasimnia
A live individual of Pellasimnia brunneiterma on a soft coral
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Ovulidae
Subfamily:	Ovulinae
Genus:	Pellasimnia Schilder, 1939
Type species
Ovulum angasiReeve, 1865
Synonyms
Phenacovolva (Pellasimnia)Schilder, 1939

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. ^[1]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Pellasimnia : ^[2]

• Pellasimnia angasi (Reeve, 1865) - the type species of the genus
• Pellasimnia annabelae Lorenz & Fehse, 2009
• Pellasimnia brunneiterma (Cate, 1969) ^[3]
• 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 aurantiaCarlsson, 1969: synonym of Phenacovolva aurantia (Sowerby, 1889)
• Pellasimnia exsul Iredale, 1935: synonym of Pellasimnia maccoyi(Tenison-Woods, 1878)
• Pellasimnia verconisCotton & Godfrey, 1932: synonym of Cuspivolva helenae (Cate, 1973)

References

1. Rosenberg, G. (2010). Pellasimnia Iredale, 1931. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=430504 on 2012-07-31
2. WoRMS : Pellasimnia
3. WoRMS (2009). Pellasimnia brunneiterma (Cate, 1969). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=431159 on 2010-05-24