Pisania

Pisania
Several representations of a shell of Pisania striata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Buccinidae
Genus:	Pisania Bivona-Bernardi, 1832 [1]
Type species
Pisania striatula Bivona-Bernardi, A., 1832
Synonyms[2]
Appisania Thiele, 1929 Ecmanis Gistel, 1848 Fusus (Pisania) Bivona-Bernardi, 1832 Jeannea Iredale, 1912 Pisania (Jeannea) Iredale, 1912 · accepted, alternate representation Polliana Gray, 1850 Proboscidea Schmidt, 1832 Taeniola Dall, 1904 Sukunaia Cernohorsky, 1966

Pisania is a genus of marine whelk in the family Buccinidae.^[3] Some species prey on barnacles.^[4]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) species with accepted names within the genus Pisania include:^[5]

• Pisania angusta Smith, 1899
• Pisania bilirata (Reeve, 1846)
• Pisania costata Thiele, 1925
• Pisania decollata (Sowerby I, 1833)
• Pisania fasciculata (Reeve, 1846)^[6]
• Pisania gracilis (Sowerby, 1859)
• Pisania hedleyi (Iredale, 1912)
• Pisania hermannseni A. Adams, 1855
• Pisania ignea (Gmelin, 1790)^[7]
• Pisania jenningsi (Cernohorsky, 1966)
• Pisania lirocincta G.B. Sowerby III, 1910
• Pisania luctuosa Tapparone-Canefri, 1880^[8]
• Pisania pusio (Linnaeus, 1758)^[9]
• Pisania rosadoi Bozzetti & Ferrario, 2005^[10]
• Pisania scholvieni Rolle, 1892
• Pisania solomonensis E.A.Smith, 1876
• Pisania striata (Gmelin, 1791)^[11]
• Pisania sugimotoi (Habe, 1968)
• Pisania tritonoides (Reeve, 1846)
• 'Pisania unicolor (Angas, 1876)

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan database also includes the following species with names in current use ^[12]

• Pisania amphodon van Martens, 1880
• Pisania naevosa Martens, 1880

The Shell-bearing Mollusca database also adds the following names ^[13]

• Pisania auritula Link, 1807 East America
• Pisania australis W. H. Pease, 1871 Australia
• Pisania brevialaxe T. Kuroda & T. Habe, 1961 Australia
• Pisania clathrata Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906 Morocco
• Pisania grimaldii Ph. Dautzenberg, 1889 Australia
• Pisania mollis A. A. Gould, 1860 Indo-Pacific
  • Pisania pusio janeirensis d'Orbigny, 1835 Brazil

Species inquerenda

• Pisania strigata Pease, 1863

Synonymized species

• Pisania bernardoi Costa & dos Santos Gomes, 1998:^[14] synonym of Dianthiphos bernardoi (Costa & Gomes, 1998)
• Pisania billeheusti Petit, 1946 Hawaiian Islands: synonym of Prodotia iostoma (Gray, 1834)
• Pisania cingulata (Reeve, 1846): synonym of Japeuthria cingulata (Reeve, 1846)
• Pisania cingulatum(sic): synonym of Japeuthria cingulata (Reeve, 1846)
• Pisania crenilabrum A. Adams, 1855: synonym of Pisania fasciculata (Reeve, 1846)
• Pisania crocata (Reeve, 1846):^[15] synonym of Prodotia crocata (Reeve, 1846)
• Pisania dorbignyi Payraudeau:^[16] synonym of Pollia dorbignyi (Payraudeau, 1826)
• Pisania englerti Hertlein, 1960: synonym of Caducifer englerti (Hertlein, 1960)
• Pisania ferrea (L. A. Reeve, 1847) Indo-Pacific: synonym of Japeuthria ferrea (Reeve, 1847)
• Pisania flavescens Hutton, 1884: synonym of Buccinulum vittatum vittatum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) represented as Buccinulum vittatum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
• Pisania gaskelli Melvill, 1891 : synonym of Orania gaskelli (Melvill, 1891)
• Pisania karinae (Nowell-Usticke, 1959): synonym of Hesperisternia karinae (Nowell-Usticke, 1959)
• Pisania laevigata Bivona-Bernardi, 1832 : synonym of Mitrella scripta (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Pisania maculosa (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Pisania striata (Gmelin, 1791)
• Pisania montrouzieri Crosse, 1862: synonym of Pisania fasciculata (Reeve, 1846)
• Pisania nodulosa Bivona Ant., 1832: synonym of Pollia dorbignyi (Payraudeau, 1826)
• Pisania rubiginosa Reeve:^[17] synonym of Pollia rubiginosa (Reeve, 1846)
• Pisania schoutanica May, 1910 : synonym of Fusus schoutanicus (May, 1910)
• Pisania striatula Bivona-Bernardi, 1832: synonym of Pisania striata (Gmelin, 1791)
• Pisania tinctus (T. A. Conrad, 1846) East America: synonym of Gemophos tinctus (Conrad, 1846)
• Pisania townsendi Melvill, 1918: synonym of Prodotia townsendi (Melvill, 1918)
• Pisania truncatus Hinds:^[18] synonym of Caducifer truncatus (Hinds, 1844)

References

1. "Nomenclator Zoologicus Record Detail". citing Effem. Sci. Lett. Sicilia, 2, 8. vol. 3, p. 769
2. "Pisania (Pisania) Bivona, 1832". Indo-Pacific Molluscan Species Database. The Academy of Natural Sciences.
3. Pisania Bivona-Bernardi, 1832.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 January 2011.
4. Kantor YI, Harasewych MG (1994). "The Diet of Pisania tincta (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) in Eastern Florida". The Veliger. 37 (1): 117–118. hdl:10088/8309.
5. WoRMS : Pisania
6. Pisania fasciculata (Reeve, 1846).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
7. Pisania ignea (Gmelin, 1790).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
8. Pisania luctuosa Tapparone-Canefri, 1880.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
9. Pisania pusio (Linnaeus, 1758).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
10. Pisania rosadoi Bozzetti & Ferrario, 2005.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
11. Pisania striata (Gmelin, 1791).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
12. "Pisania Bivona, 1832". OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Species Database. The Academy of Natural Sciences.
13. "Mollusca/Gastropoda/Mesogastropoda & Neogastropoda". Schooner Specimen Shells. Pisania.
14. Pisania bernardoi Costa & dos Santos Gomes, 1998.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
15. Pisania crocata .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
16. Pisania d'orbignyi Payraudeau.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
17. Pisania rubiginosa Reeve.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
18. Pisania truncatus Hinds.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.

• Bivona-Bernardi Ant. 1832. Caratteri d'un nuovo genere di conchiglie della famiglia delle Columellarie del Signor de Lamarck. Effemeride Scientifiche e Letterarie per la Sicilia 2(1): 8-13
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213

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