Pisania

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Pisania
Several representations of a shell of Pisania striata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Pisaniidae
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
  • Triton (Hilda) Hoernes & Auinger, 1884

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

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