''Ameranna'' is a

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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

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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 ''Ameranna royalensis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pisaniidae The Pisaniidae are a taxonomic family of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Buccinoidea.Rosenberg, G. ...

'' (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. page(s): 127 Pisaniidae Gastropod genera {{Caenogastropoda-stub