Pseudosimnia adriatica

Pseudosimnia adriatica
Two views of a shell of Pseudosimnia adriatica (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Ovulidae
Genus:	Pseudosimnia
Species:	P. adriatica
Binomial name
Pseudosimnia adriatica (Sowerby, 1828)
Synonyms [1]
Aperiovula adriatica adriatica Sowerby, 1828 Aperiovula adriatica adriatica Sowerby, 1828 Aperiovula adriatica iberiaCate, 1973 Aperiovula emersoniCate, 1973 Bulla virgineaCantraine, 1835 Ovula elongata Requien, 1848 Ovula haliotidea Blainville, 1825 Ovula oblongata Blainville, 1848 Ovulum adriaticum Sowerby, 1828 Primovula adriaticaAllan, 1956 Pseudosimnia adriatica Schilder, 1941

Pseudosimnia adriatica, common name the Adriatic egg shell, 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 the shell varies between 15 and 28 mm (0.59 and 1.10 in).

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Western Mediterranean and in the adjacent Atlantic Ocean.

References

1. Pseudosimnia adriatica (G.B. Sowerby I, 1828) . WoRMS (2010). Pseudosimnia adriatica (G.B. Sowerby I, 1828). Accessed through: WoRMS at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=430587 on 5 June 2010 .

External links

• [Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks.