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Pellasimnia
A live individual of Pellasimnia brunneiterma on a soft coral
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Ovulidae
Subfamily:	Ovulinae
Genus:	Pellasimnia Schilder, 1939
Type species
Ovulum angasi Reeve, 1865
Synonyms
Phenacovolva (Pellasimnia) Schilder, 1939

Pellasimnia is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Ovulinae of the family Ovulidae, sometimes known as the false cowries and the cowry allies.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Pellasimnia :

• Pellasimnia angasi (Reeve, 1865) - the type species of the genus
• Pellasimnia annabelae Lorenz & Fehse, 2009
• Pellasimnia brunneiterma (Cate, 1969)
• Pellasimnia cleaveri Lorenz & Fehse, 2009
• Pellasimnia hochmuthi Lorenz & Fehse, 2009
• Pellasimnia improcera (Azuma & Cate, 1971)
• † Pellasimnia maxwelli Beu & B. A. Marshall, 2011
• Pellasimnia mcoyi (Tenison-Woods, 1878)

Species brought into synonymy

• Pellasimnia aurantia Carlsson, 1969: synonym of Phenacovolva aurantia (Sowerby, 1889)
• Pellasimnia exsul Iredale, 1935: synonym of Pellasimnia maccoyi (Tenison-Woods, 1878)
• Pellasimnia verconis Cotton & Godfrey, 1932: synonym of Cuspivolva helenae (Cate, 1973)

References

1. Rosenberg, G. (2010). Pellasimnia Iredale, 1931. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=430504 on 2012-07-31
2. WoRMS : Pellasimnia
3. WoRMS (2009). Pellasimnia brunneiterma (Cate, 1969). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=431159 on 2010-05-24

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