Pisania | |
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Several representations of a shell of Pisania striata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
Family: | Pisaniidae |
Genus: | Pisania Bivona-Bernardi, 1832 [1] |
Type species | |
Pisania striatulaBivona-Bernardi, A., 1832 | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Pisania is a genus of marine whelk in the family Pisaniidae. [3] Some species prey on barnacles. [4]
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) species with accepted names within the genus Pisania include: [5]
The Shell-bearing Mollusca database also adds the following names [12]
Buccinum is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Natica is a genus of small to medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropods in the subfamily Naticinae of the family Naticidae, the moon snails. The genus was erected by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1777.
Buccinulum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Mitrella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Columbellidae, the dove shells or dove snails.
Bufonaria is a genus of medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Bursidae, the "frog snails".
Mangelia is a large genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Pisania striata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pisaniidae.
Engina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pisaniidae.
Pollia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pisaniidae.
Prodotia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Prodotiidae.
Columbella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.
Peristernia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Peristerniinae of the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.
Pusia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Costellariidae.
Coralliophila is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Coralliophilinae, the coral snails, within the family Muricidae, the murex snails and rock snails.
Cronia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Cypraea is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails or cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
Notocochlis is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Naticinae of the family Naticidae, the moon snails.
The Pisaniidae are a taxonomic family of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Buccinoidea.
Striarca is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Noetiidae.