Pirenella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2016). Pirenella Gray, 1847. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206423 on 2016-03-29
Species Species within the genus Pirenella include: Pirenella alata (Philippi, 1849) Pirenella arabica Reid, 2016 Pirenella asiatica Ozawa & Reid, 2016 Pirenella austrocingulata Reid, 2015 † Pirenella balatonica (Tausch, 1886) Pirenella caiyingyai (Qian, Fang & He, 2013) Pirenella cancellata Ozawa & Reid, 2016 Pirenella cingulata (Gmelin, 1791) Pirenella conica (Blainville, 1829) † Pirenella delicatula Reid, 2016 † Pirenella etrusca (Mayer, 1864) Pirenella graeca (Deshayes, 1835) Pirenella incisa (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848) Pirenella microptera (Kiener, 1841) Pirenella nanhaiensis Fu & Reid, 2016 Pirenella nipponica Ozawa & Reid, 2016 Pirenella pupiformis Ozawa & Reid, 2016 Pirenella retifera (G. B. Sowerby II, 1855) Pirenella rugosa Reid, 2016 † Pirenella subconica (Pallary, 1901) † Pirenella supracretacea (Tausch, 1886) Species brought into synonymy Pirenella boswellae (Barnard, 1963): synonym of Pseudovertagus clava (Gmelin, 1791) Pirenella cailliaudi (Potiez & Michaud, 1838): synonym of Pirenella conica (Blainville, 1829) Pirenella insculpta (G. B. Sowerby II, 1865): synonym of Zeacumantus plumbeus (G.B. Sowerby II, 1855) Pirenella layardii (A. Adams, 1854): synonym of Pirenella conica (Blainville, 1829) Pirenella mammillata (Gray, 1847): synonym of Pirenella conica (Blainville, 1829)
References
Lozouet P. (1986). Redéfinition des genres Potamides et Pirenella (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) à partir des espèces actuelles et fossiles. Implications phylétiques et biogéographiques.. Annales de Paléontologie 72: 163-210
External links
Jousseaume (F.P.) 1894. Diagnoses des coquilles de nouveaux mollusques. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris, 8(6): 98-105. Reid D.G. & Ozawa T. (2016). The genus Pirenella Gray, 1847 (= Cerithideopsilla Thiele, 1929) (Gastropoda: Potamididae) in the Indo-West Pacific region and Mediterranean Sea. Zootaxa. 4076(1): 1-91