Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Caenogastropoda incertae sedis > Superfamily Cerithioidea > Family Potamididae > Genus Pirenella

Pirenella conica (Blainville, 1829)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Cerithium Bruguière, 1789

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pirenella*	J. E. Gray, 1847	accepted genus name
*Cerithidea (Pirenella)*	J. E. Gray, 1847	synonym

Species group names

*Cerithium cailliaudii*	Potiez & Michaud, 1838	synonym
*Cerithium cinerascente*	G. B. Sowerby II, 1855	synonym
*Cerithium peloritanum*	Cantraine, 1835	synonym
*Cerithium sardoum*	Cantraine, 1835	synonym
*Pirenella conica tricolor*	Pallary, 1904	synonym
*Pirenella conica var. funicula*	Pallary, 1912	synonym
*Pirenella conica var. fusca*	Pallary, 1912	synonym
*Pirenella conica var. mairei*	Pallary, 1938	synonym
*Pirenella conica var. major*	Pallary, 1912	synonym
*Pirenella conica var. teilhardi*	Pallary, 1912	synonym
*Potamides conicus*	(Blainville, 1829)	synonym

Literature

basis of record	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.
additional source	Oliverio, Marco (2006). Gastropoda Prosobranchia Caenogastropoda, in: Revisione della Checklist della fauna marina italiana.
additional source	Bacci, G. (1951). Elementi per una malacofauna dell'Abissinia e della Somalia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, 65: 1-145. Genova.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pirenella conica (Blainville, 1829). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:238094