| Pirenella alata | |
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| Two shells of Pirenella alata (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Potamididae |
| Genus: | Pirenella |
| Species: | P. alata |
| Binomial name | |
| Pirenella alata (Philippi, 1849) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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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] Indonesia
References
- 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.
- 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
- Lozouet, P. & Plaziat, J.-C., 2008 - Mangrove environments and molluscs, Abatan river, Bohol and Panglao islands, central Philippines,, p. 1-160, 38 pls
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pirenella alata.
- 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
- Gastropods.com: Cerithidea (Cerithideopsilla) djadjariensis
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