Pyrene obtusa

Pyrene obtusa
	Three shells of Pyrene obtusa (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Columbellidae
Genus:	Pyrene
Species:	P. obtusa
Binomial name
	Pyrene obtusa; (G.B. Sowerby I, 1832)
Synonyms
	Buccinum lacteum Kiener, 1834; Colombella uvania Duclos, P.L. 1840; Columbella funiculata Souverbie, M. & Montrouzier, R.P. 1865; Columbella obtusa G.B. Sowerby I, 1832 (basionym); Columbella tringa var. tankervillei Hervier, 1899; Columbella zelina Duclos, 1835; Columbella zelina var. cylindra Hervier, 1899; Pyrene lactea (Kiener, 1834); Pyrene obtusa curta Schmeltz, J.D.K. 1874.; Pyrene tankervillei (Hervier, 1899);

Pyrene obtusa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.

Description

The shell size varies between 11 mm and 18 mm

The small shell is pretty thin, ovate, conical and smooth. It is of a diaphanous white. The sutures are indistinctly apparent. The spire is composed of six convex whorls, ornamented at their base with spots of a duller white. The body whorl is as large as all the others, striated at base, and surrounded, towards the middle, with small, distant spots, articulated by a reddish line. The aperture is ovate. The outer lip denticulated within, and thickened outwardly, even to the base of the shell.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off East Africa and Mauritius and Réunion and in the Indo-West Pacific; off Australia (Queensland)

References

1 2 Pyrene obtusa. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 January 2011.
↑ Kiener (1840). General species and iconography of recent shells : comprising the Massena Museum, the collection of Lamarck, the collection of the Museum of Natural History, and the recent discoveries of travellers; Boston :W.D. Ticknor,1837 (described as Buccinum lacteum)

Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1832. Descriptions of new species of shells collected by Mr. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1832(2): 113–120
Duclos, P.L. 1840. Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere de tous genres de coquilles univalves marines a l'état vivant et fossile publiee par monographie. Genre Columbelle. Paris : Didot.
Souverbie, M. & Montrouzier, R.P. 1865. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie 13: 150–159, pl. 5
Schmeltz, J.D.K. 1874. Museum Godeffroy Catalog 5. Hamburg : L. Friederichsen & Co. 215 pp.
Drivas, J. & Jay, M. 1990. The Columbellidae of Réunion Island (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Annals of the Natal Museum 31: 163–200
Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
Kilburn R.N. & Marais J.P. (2010) Columbellidae. Pp. 60-104, 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

"Pyrene obtusa obtusa". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 29 January 2011.

[WoRMS-1] 1 2 Pyrene obtusa. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 January 2011.

[Kiener-2] Kiener (1840). General species and iconography of recent shells : comprising the Massena Museum, the collection of Lamarck, the collection of the Museum of Natural History, and the recent discoveries of travellers; Boston :W.D. Ticknor,1837 (described as Buccinum lacteum)

Pyrene obtusa

Three shells of Pyrene obtusa (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Columbellidae
Genus:	Pyrene
Species:	P. obtusa
Binomial name
*Pyrene obtusa* (G.B. Sowerby I, 1832)
Synonyms
Buccinum lacteum Kiener, 1834 Colombella uvania Duclos, P.L. 1840 Columbella funiculata Souverbie, M. & Montrouzier, R.P. 1865 Columbella obtusa G.B. Sowerby I, 1832 (basionym) Columbella tringa var. tankervillei Hervier, 1899 Columbella zelina Duclos, 1835 Columbella zelina var. cylindra Hervier, 1899 Pyrene lactea (Kiener, 1834) Pyrene obtusa curta Schmeltz, J.D.K. 1874. Pyrene tankervillei (Hervier, 1899)