Pseudosimnia carnea
Ventral view of a shell of Pseudosimnia carnea
Scientific 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

• 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

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pseudosimnia carnea.

• "Pseudosimnia carnea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Poiret, J. L. M. (1789). Voyage en Barbarie, ou Lettres écrites de l'ancienne Numidie pendant les années 1785 & 1786, sur la religion, les coutumes & les murs des Maures & des Arabes-Bédouins; avec un essai sur l'histoire naturelle de ce pays. Par M. l'abbé Poiret. Paris.
• Dillwyn, L. W. (1817). A descriptive catalogue of Recent shells, arranged according to the Linnean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. London: John and Arthur Arch. Vol. 1: 1-580; Vol. 2: 581-1092 + index
• Bucquoy E., Dautzenberg P. & Dollfus G. (1882-1886). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome Ier. Gastropodes. Paris: Baillière & fils. 570 pp., 66 pls.
• Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls
• Fischer von Waldheim, G. (1807). Museum Demidoff, ou, Catalogue systématique et raisonné des curiosités de la nature et de l'art: données à l'Université Impériale de Moscou par son excellence Monsieur Paul de Demidoff. Tome III. Végétaux et Animaux. Moscow: Imprimerie de Université Impériale de Moscou. 300 pp, 6 pls.
• Mawe, J. 1823. The Linnaean system of conchology, describing the orders, genera and species of shells, arranged into divisions and families. London: J. Mawe. 207 pp., 37 pls
• Pallary, P. (1900). Coquilles marines du littoral du département d'Oran. Journal de Conchyliologie. 48(3): 211-422
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
• Cate C.N. (1973). A systematic revision of the recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. The Veliger. 15 (supplement): 1-117.