Pellasimnia is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Ovulinae of the family Ovulidae, sometimes known as the false cowries and the cowry allies.[1]
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| A live individual of Pellasimnia brunneiterma on a soft coral | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Ovulidae |
| Subfamily: | Ovulinae |
| Genus: | Pellasimnia Schilder, 1939 |
| Type species | |
| Ovulum angasi Reeve, 1865 | |
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Phenacovolva (Pellasimnia) Schilder, 1939 | |
Species edit
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Pellasimnia :[2]
- Pellasimnia angasi (Reeve, 1865) - the type species of the genus
- Pellasimnia annabelae Lorenz & Fehse, 2009
- Pellasimnia brunneiterma (Cate, 1969)[3]
- Pellasimnia cleaveri Lorenz & Fehse, 2009
- Pellasimnia hochmuthi Lorenz & Fehse, 2009
- Pellasimnia improcera (Azuma & Cate, 1971)
- † Pellasimnia maxwelli Beu & B. A. Marshall, 2011
- Pellasimnia mcoyi (Tenison-Woods, 1878)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Pellasimnia aurantia Carlsson, 1969: synonym of Phenacovolva aurantia (Sowerby, 1889)
- Pellasimnia exsul Iredale, 1935: synonym of Pellasimnia maccoyi (Tenison-Woods, 1878)
- Pellasimnia verconis Cotton & Godfrey, 1932: synonym of Cuspivolva helenae (Cate, 1973)
References edit
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- ^ Rosenberg, G. (2010). Pellasimnia Iredale, 1931. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=430504 on 2012-07-31
- ^ WoRMS : Pellasimnia
- ^ WoRMS (2009). Pellasimnia brunneiterma (Cate, 1969). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=431159 on 2010-05-24