Pseudosimnia adriatica

Pseudosimnia adriatica
	Two views of a shell of Pseudosimnia adriatica (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Ovulidae
Genus:	Pseudosimnia
Species:	P. adriatica
Binomial name
	Pseudosimnia adriatica; (Sowerby, 1828)
Synonyms
	Aperiovula adriatica adriatica Sowerby, 1828; Aperiovula adriatica adriatica Sowerby, 1828; Aperiovula adriatica iberia Cate, 1973; Aperiovula emersoni Cate, 1973; Bulla virginea Cantraine, 1835; Ovula elongata Requien, 1848; Ovula haliotidea Blainville, 1825; Ovula oblongata Blainville, 1848; Ovulum adriaticum Sowerby, 1828; Primovula adriatica Allan, 1956; Pseudosimnia adriatica Schilder, 1941;

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

Description

The size of the shell varies between 15 mm and 28 mm.

This marine species occurs in the Western Mediterranean and in the adjacent Atlantic Ocean.

^ ^a ^b Pseudosimnia adriatica (G.B. Sowerby I, 1828). WoRMS (2010). Pseudosimnia adriatica (G.B. Sowerby I, 1828). Accessed through: WoRMS at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=430587 on 5 June 2010 .

[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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