Pelseneeria

Pelseneeria
Shell of Pelseneeria striata (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Vanikoroidea
Family:	Eulimidae
Genus:	Pelseneeria Koehler & Vaney, 1908
Type species
Pelseneeria profunda Koehler & Vaney, 1908
Synonyms
Parastilifer A. V. Ivanov, 1952 Rosenia Nierstrasz, 1913 (non Waagen & Wentzel, 1886) Stylina Fleming, 1828 (non Lamarck, 1816) Turtonia Rosén, 1910 (non Alder, 1848) Venustilifer Powell, 1939

Pelseneeria is a genus of very small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Eulimidae. This genus was first described by R. Koehler and C. Vaney in 1908.

Species

Species within the genera Pelseneeria include:

• Pelseneeria bountyensis Powell, 1933
• Pelseneeria brunnea Tate, 1887
• Pelseneeria castanea Dall, 1925
• Pelseneeria hawaiiensis Warén, B. L. Burch & T. A. Burch, 1984
• Pelseneeria media Koehler & Vaney, 1908
• Pelseneeria minor Koehler & Vaney, 1908
• Pelseneeria minuta Dall, 1927
• Pelseneeria perdepressa Dall, 1925
• Pelseneeria profunda Koehler & Vaney, 1908 (Type taxon)
• Pelseneeria secunda Powell, 1940
• † Pelseneeria senuti Lozouet, 1999
• Pelseneeria sibogae Schepman & Nierstrasz, 1909
• Pelseneeria stimpsonii A. E. Verrill, 1872
• Pelseneeria striata Bouchet & Warén, 1986
• Pelseneeria stylifera Turton, 1825
• Pelseneeria sudamericana Pastorino & Zelaya, 2001
• Pelseneeria thurstoni Winckworth, 1936
• Pelseneeria yamamotoi Habe, 1952

Species brought into synonymy

• Pelseneeria globosus (Johnston, 1841): synonym of Pelseneeria stylifera (Turton, 1825)
• Pelseneeria secundus [sic]: synonym of Pelseneeria secunda (Powell, 1940)
• Pelseneeria turtoni (Broderip, 1832): synonym of Pelseneeria stylifera (Turton, 1825)
• Pelseneeria verrilli (Dall, 1927): synonym of Pelseneeria stimpsonii (A. E. Verrill, 1872)

References

• Koehler R. & Vaney C. (1908). Description d'un nouveau genre de Prosobranches parasite sur certains Echinides. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique de Monaco 118: 1-16
• Winckworth, R. (1932). The British marine Mollusca. Journal of Conchology. 19 (7): 211-252.
• Ivanov, 1952 [Trudy Leningradskogo Obshchestva Estestvoispytatelei, Otdelenie Zoologii, 71(4): 134].
• Powell, Arthur William Baden (1939). "The Mollusca of Stewart Island". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 2: 211–238. JSTOR 42905983. Wikidata Q58676613.
• Warén, A. (1984). A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies. suppl 13: 1-96. page(s): 64

Further reading

• Waren, Anders (1980). "Revision of the Genera Thyca, Stilifer, Scalenostoma, Mucronalia and Echineulima (Mollusca, Prosobranchia, Eulimidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 9: 187. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1980.tb00663.x.

External links

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• Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan. Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda.
• Marine Species Identification Portal