Pelseneeria

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

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

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].
• 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

External links

• 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