Pirenella alata

Pirenella alata
Two shells of Pirenella alata (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Potamididae
Genus: Pirenella
Species: P. alata
Binomial name
Pirenella alata
(Philippi, 1849)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cerithidea alata (Philippi, 1849)
  • Cerithidea djadjariensis (K. Martin, 1899)
  • Cerithideopsilla alata (Philippi, 1849)
  • Cerithideopsilla djadjariensis (K. Martin, 1899)
  • Cerithium alatum Philippi, 1849
  • Cerithidea alata (Philippi, 1849)
  • † Potamides (Cerithidea) djadjariensis K. Martin, 1899
  • † Potamides djadjariensis K. Martin, 1899
  • Tympanotonos euryptera G. B. Sowerby II, 1866

Pirenella alata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae.[1][2] It also lives in brackish water.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Philippines, Myanmar, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and Indonesia.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Ozawa T., Yin W., Fu C., Claremont M., Smith L. & Reid D. G. (2015). "Allopatry and overlap in a clade of snails from mangroves and mud flats in the Indo-West Pacific and Mediterranean (Gastropoda: Potamididae: Cerithideopsilla)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 114(1): 212-228. doi:10.1111/bij.12401.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2016). Pirenella alata (Philippi, 1849). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=870514 on 2016-03-29
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