''Ameranna'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
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s, marine
gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the
family
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Pisaniidae
The Pisaniidae are a taxonomic family of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Buccinoidea.Rosenberg, G. (2018). Pisaniidae Gray, 1857. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespeci ...
,.
[Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2018). Ameranna Landau & Vermeij, 2012. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=600646 on 2018-01-09]
Species
According to the
World Register of Marine Species
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(WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus ''Anna'' :
* ''
Ameranna florida''
(Garcia, 2008)
* ''
Ameranna milleri''
(Nowell-Usticke, 1959)
* ''
Ameranna royalensis''
(Watters, 2009)
* ''
Ameranna willemsae''
(De Jong & Coomans, 1988)
References
* Landau, B.; Vermeij G. J. (2012). ''The genera Engina and Ameranna nov. gen. (Mollusca: Gastropoda, Buccinoidea, Buccinidae, Pisaniinae) from the Western Atlantic Neogene''. Caenozoic Research. 9(1): 121-133.
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Pisaniidae
Gastropod genera
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