WoRMS name details
Pirenella mammillata J. E. Gray, 1847
870513 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:870513)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862913
page(s): 154 [details]
page(s): 154 [details]
Nomenclature Gray cited the type species as "Cerithium mammillatum, Philippi", i.e. Cerithium mamillatum Risso, 1826, as used by...
Nomenclature Gray cited the type species as "Cerithium mammillatum, Philippi", i.e. Cerithium mamillatum Risso, 1826, as used by Philippi (1836, 1844, Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae). Cerithium mamillatum Risso, 1826, is now considered a synonym of Bittium latreillii (Payraudeau, 1826), but Philippi used the name for the species currently known as Pirenella conica (Blainville, 1829) and, under Art. 70.3, Petit [2012, Zootaxa, 3214: 92] designated Cerithium conicum Blainville, 1829, as type species of Pirenella. Reid& Ozawa [2016, Zootaxa, 4076(1): 12] argued that Gray had deliberately used Cerithium mammillatum in the sense of Philippi's misidentification; under Art. 67.13, Gray is deemed to have established a new nominal species Pirenella mammillata Gray, 1847. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pirenella mammillata J. E. Gray, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=870513 on 2025-04-30
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Nomenclature
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Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862913
page(s): 154 [details]
page(s): 154 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Reid D.G. & Ozawa T. (2016). The genus <i>Pirenella</i> Gray, 1847 (= <i>Cerithideopsilla</i> Thiele, 1929) (Gastropoda: Potamididae) in the Indo-West Pacific region and Mediterranean Sea. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4076(1): 1-91., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4076.1.1 [details] Available for editors 
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Nomenclature Gray cited the type species as "Cerithium mammillatum, Philippi", i.e. Cerithium mamillatum Risso, 1826, as used by Philippi (1836, 1844, Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae). Cerithium mamillatum Risso, 1826, is now considered a synonym of Bittium latreillii (Payraudeau, 1826), but Philippi used the name for the species currently known as Pirenella conica (Blainville, 1829) and, under Art. 70.3, Petit [2012, Zootaxa, 3214: 92] designated Cerithium conicum Blainville, 1829, as type species of Pirenella. Reid& Ozawa [2016, Zootaxa, 4076(1): 12] argued that Gray had deliberately used Cerithium mammillatum in the sense of Philippi's misidentification; under Art. 67.13, Gray is deemed to have established a new nominal species Pirenella mammillata Gray, 1847. [details]
