Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Velutinoidea > Family Velutinidae > Subfamily Velutininae

Piliscus Lovén, 1859

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Pilidium Middendorff, 1851 junior homonym; nom. inval.
Capulacmaea M. Sars, 1859 synonym

Children

Piliscus commodus (Middendorff, 1851)

Literature

original description

Torell, O. (1859). Bidrag till Spitsbergen Molluskfauna. Jemte en allman öfversigt af Arktiska regionens naturforåhallanden och forntida utbredning. Föreningens Boktryckeri, Stocholm, pp. 1-154, pl. 1-2. 118.

basis of record

Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Piliscus Lovén, 1859. 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:138629

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2020-10-21 by Maxim Vinarski

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