Ecmanis ignea

Ecmanis ignea
Shell of Ecmanis ignea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Pisaniidae
Genus:	Ecmanis
Species:	E. ignea
Binomial name
Ecmanis ignea (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms
Buccinum igneum Gmelin, 1790 Buccinum pictum Reeve, 1846 junior homonym (of Buccinum pictum Dunker, Nov.1846 [Reeve's name is from Dec. 1846] ) Pisania ignea (Gmelin, 1791) Tritonium buccinulum Röding, 1798 junior subjective synonym

Ecmanis ignea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pisaniidae.

Description

Its size ranges from 20 to 52 mm.

This species differs from other Pisania species by its light weight in proportion to shell size and fragile appearance. In the most senile specimens, only the first posterior labial denticles are distinct, and are followed by 4-5 blunt, almost obsolete denticleswhich are indicated as swellings. The early whorls are prominently granulose, but the last two whorls have only obsolete spiral threads or grooves.

Distribution

Western Central Pacific: Philippines, Indonesia, and Guam.

References

• Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321–636, plates IV-VII
• Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
• Kilburn R.N., Marais J.P. & Fraussen K. (2010) Buccinidae. pp. 16–52, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp.

External links

• Gmelin, J.F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. Vol. Tom. 1 Pars. 6. Leipzig: G. E. Beer. pp. 3021–3910. Retrieved 9 June 2026.
• Röding, P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Hamburg: Trapp. p. 125.
• Reeve, L.A. (1845). "Monograph of the genus Buccinum". Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals. Vol. 3. London: L. Reeve & Co. p. pl. 10; fig. 74.
• Kantor, Y.I.; Fedosov, A.E.; Kosyan, A.R.; Puillandre, N.; Sorokin, P.A.; Kano, Y.; Clark, R. N.; Bouchet, P. (2022). "Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194 (3): 840–841. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab031.