Perrona
Perrona is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]
| Perrona | |
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| A shell of Perrona spirata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Clavatulidae |
| Genus: | Perrona Schumacher, 1817 |
| Type species | |
| Perrona tritonum Schumacher, 1817 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pleurotoma (Perrona) Schumacher, 1817 | |
Description
In this genus the spire is carinated or smooth. The whorls are not tubercular or spinose. The anal sinus can be found more or less near the suture.[3]
Species
Species within the genus Perrona include:
- Perrona aculeiformis (Lamarck, 1816)[4]
- † Perrona anwari Abbass H., 1977 [5]
- † Perrona heinmoorensis Kautsky, 1925[6]
- Perrona jessica Melvill, 1923[7]
- Perrona micro Rolan, Ryall & Horro, 2008[8]
- Perrona obesa (Reeve, 1842)[9]
- Perrona perron (Gmelin, 1791)[10]
- † Perrona semimarginata (Lamarck, 1822) (fossils from deposits in the Miocene, Burdigalian, Graves near Bordeaux, France) [6]
- Perrona spirata (Lamarck, 1816)[11]
- Perrona subspirata (Martens, 1902)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Perrona lineata (Lamarck, 1816):[12] synonym of Tomellana lineata (Lamarck, 1818)
- Perrona tritonum Schumacher, 1817: synonym of Perrona perron (Gmelin, 1791)
Several shells of † Perrona semimarginata
References
- Perrona Schumacher, 1817. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 August 2011.
- P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
- George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 157; 1884
- Perrona aculeiformis (Lamarck, 1816). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
- Houssein L. Abbass (1977), A Monograph of new Miocene Gastropod Species in the Cairo-Suez District, Egypt; J. Univ. Kuwait (Sci.) 4, 1977
- M. Glibert (1954) , Pleurotomes du Miocène; Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique; Mémoires N" 129
- Perrona jessica Melvill, 1923. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
- Perrona micro Rolan, Ryall & Horro, 2008. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
- Perrona obesa (Reeve, 1842). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
- Perrona perron (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
- Perrona spirata (Lamarck, 1816). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
- Perrona lineata (Lamarck, 1816). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
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