Pseudosimnia carnea
Ventral view of a shell of Pseudosimnia carnea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Ovulidae
Genus: Pseudosimnia
Species:
P. carnea
Binomial name
Pseudosimnia carnea
(Poiret, 1789)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bulla carnea Poiret, 1789
  • Bulla lepida Dillwyn, 1817
  • Bulla nucleus Dillwyn, 1817
  • Ovula alba Scacchi in Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883
  • Ovula albida Monterosato, 1875
  • Ovula carnea (Poiret, 1789)
  • Ovula carnea var. alba Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883
  • Ovula carnea var. albida Monterosato, 1875
  • Ovula carnea var. elongata Pallary, 1900 (invalid: junior homonym of Ovula elongata d'Archiac, 1854)
  • Ovula carnea var. gibbosa Coen, 1933
  • Ovula carnea var. globosa Pallary, 1900
  • Ovula carnea var. major Pallary, 1900
  • Ovula carnea var. minor Pallary, 1900
  • Ovula carnea var. obtusula Pallary, 1900
  • Ovula carnea var. pallida Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883
  • Ovula carnea var. rosea Requien, 1848
  • Ovula carnea var. rubra Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883
  • Ovula carnea var. violacea Pallary, 1900
  • Ovula cepula Schumacher, 1817
  • Ovula dentata Fischer, 1807
  • Ovula elongata Pallary, 1900
  • Ovula globosa Pallary, 1900
  • Ovula major Pallary, 1900
  • Ovula minor Pallary, 1900
  • Ovula nucleus Mawe, 1823
  • Ovula obtusula Pallary, 1900
  • Ovula pallida Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883
  • Ovula rosea Requien, 1848
  • Ovula rubra Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883
  • Ovula rufula Mollerat, 1890
  • Ovula triticea da Costa in Tryon, 1885
  • Ovula violacea Pallary, 1900
  • Primovula carnea (Poiret, 1789)
  • Primovula carnea var. dorsolirata Coen, 1949

Pseudosimnia carnea, common name the dwarf red egg shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.[1]

The subspecies Pseudosimnia carnea expallescens Schilder, 1967is a taxon inquirendum.

Description

The size of the shell varies between 8 mm and 19 mm.

Distribution

This * Occurs in the Mediterranean Sea, off Northwest Africa (Senegal); off the West Indies.

References

  1. 1 2 Pseudosimnia carnea (Poiret, 1789). Gofas, S. (2010). Pseudosimnia carnea (Poiret, 1789). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140667 on 5 June 2010 .
  • Coen G. (1933). Saggio di una Sylloge Molluscorum Adriaticorum. Memorie del Regio Comitato Talassografico Italiano 192: pp. i-vii, 1-186
  • Coen, G. (1949). Nota su alcune forme nuove di Cypreacea. Historia Naturalis. 3(1): 13-18
  • Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks


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