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 Powell, 1933 Pelseneeria brunnea Tate, 1887 Pelseneeria castanea Dall, 1925 Pelseneeria hawaiiensis Warén, B. L. Burch & T. A. Burch, 1984 Pelseneeria media Koehler & Vaney, 1908 Pelseneeria minor Koehler & Vaney, 1908 Pelseneeria minuta Dall, 1927 Pelseneeria perdepressa Dall, 1925 Pelseneeria profunda Koehler & Vaney, 1908 (Type taxon) Pelseneeria secunda Powell, 1940 † Pelseneeria senuti Lozouet, 1999 Pelseneeria sibogae Schepman & Nierstrasz, 1909 Pelseneeria stimpsonii A. E. Verrill, 1872 Pelseneeria striata Bouchet & Warén, 1986 Pelseneeria stylifera Turton, 1825 Pelseneeria sudamericana Pastorino & Zelaya, 2001 Pelseneeria thurstoni Winckworth, 1936 Pelseneeria yamamotoi Habe, 1952 Species brought into synonymy Pelseneeria globosus (Johnston, 1841): synonym of Pelseneeria stylifera (Turton, 1825) Pelseneeria secundus [sic]: synonym of Pelseneeria secunda (Powell, 1940) Pelseneeria turtoni (Broderip, 1832): synonym of Pelseneeria stylifera (Turton, 1825) Pelseneeria verrilli (Dall, 1927): synonym of Pelseneeria stimpsonii (A. E. Verrill, 1872)
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