Pirenella alata

Species of gastropod

Pirenella alata

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]
Cerithidea alata (Philippi, 1849) Cerithidea djadjariensis (K. Martin, 1899) Cerithideopsilla alata (Philippi, 1849) Cerithideopsilla djadjariensis (K. Martin, 1899) Cerithium alatum Philippi, 1849 Cerithidea alata (Philippi, 1849) † Potamides (Cerithidea) djadjariensis K. Martin, 1899 † Potamides djadjariensis K. Martin, 1899 Tympanotonos euryptera G. B. Sowerby II, 1866

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

^ ^a ^b 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.
^ ^a ^b 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

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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