Arene is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of small sea snail

Sea snail

Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....

s that have a calcareous operculum

Operculum (gastropod)

The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...

, marine

Marine (ocean)

Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...

 gastropod molluscs in the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Areneidae

Areneidae

Areneidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.Areneidae is not officially described as a taxon name. Areneidae is provisionaly placed within the superfamily Angarioidea according to Williams et al. ....

.

The genus Arene (and also the genus Cinysca

Cinysca

Cinysca is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Areneidae.-Species:Species within the genus Cinysca include:* Cinysca alvesi Rubio & Rolan, 2002* Cinysca arlequin Rubio & Rolan, 2002...

) are placed within the family Areneidae

Areneidae

Areneidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.Areneidae is not officially described as a taxon name. Areneidae is provisionaly placed within the superfamily Angarioidea according to Williams et al. ....

, although Areneidae was not officially described as a taxon name. Areneidae is provisionaly placed within the superfamily Angarioidea

Angarioidea

Angarioidea is a superfamily of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.-Taxonomy :The superfamily Angarioidea was created as a new superfamily by Williams et al...

, according to Williams et al. (2008)

Species

Species within the genus Arene include:

• Arene bairdii
  Arene bairdii
  Arene bairdii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Areneidae....
  
  (Dall, 1889)
• Arene bitleri Olsson & McGinty, 1958
• Arene boucheti Leal, 1991
• Arene brasiliana (Dall, 1927)
• Arene briareus
  Arene briareus
  Arene briareus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Areneidae....
  
  (Dall, 1881)
• Arene centrifuga
  Arene centrifuga
  Arene centrifuga is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Areneidae....
  
  (Dall, 1896)
• Arene cruentata (Mühlfeld, 1824)
• Arene curacoana Pilsbry, 1934
• Arene flexispina Leal & Coelho, 1985
• Arene laguairana Weisbord, 1962
• Arene microforis
  Arene microforis
  Arene microforis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Areneidae....
  
  (Dall, 1889)
• Arene miniata (Dall, 1889)
• Arene pulex
  Arene pulex
  Arene pulex is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Areneidae....
  
  Faber, 2009
• Arene riisei
  Arene riisei
  Arene riisei is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Areneidae....
  
  Rehder, 1943
• Arene tamsiana (Philippi, 1852)
• Arene tricarinata
  Arene tricarinata
  Arene tricarinata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Areneidae....
  
  (Stearns, 1872)
• Arene variabilis
  Arene variabilis
  Arene variabilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Areneidae....
  
  (Dall, 1889)
• Arene venustula
  Arene venustula
  Arene venustula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Areneidae....
  
  Aguayo & Rehder, 1936

Other species include:

• Arene adusta J. H. McLean, 1970
• Arene balboai (Strong & Hertlein
  Leo George Hertlein
  Leo George Hertlein was an American paleontologist and malacologist who studied the Recent and fossil mollusks of the eastern Pacific Ocean.Hertlein was born on a farm in Pratt County, Kansas...
  
  , 1939)
• Arene brasiliana (Dall, 1927)
• Arene californica (Dall, 1908)
• Arene carinata Carpenter
  Phillip Pearsall Carpenter
  Philip Pearsall Carpenter Rev. Dr. , who in 1841, was ordained Presbyterian minister in England, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in 1860, and whose field work as a malacologist or conchologist in North America is still well regarded today...
  
  , 1857
• Arene coronadensis (Stohler, 1959) = Macrarene coronadensis
• Arene diegensis J. H. McLean, 1964
• Arene farallonensis (A. G. Smith, 1952)
• Arene ferruginosa J. H. McLean, 1970
• Arene fricki Crosse
  Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse
  Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse was a French conchologist.-Works:*Notice sur les bulimes de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, et description de deux espèces nouvelles .*Descriptions de coquilles nouvelles ....
  
  , 1865
• Arene lepidotera (J. H. Mclean, 1970)
• Arene lucasensis Strong, 1933
• Arene miniata (Dall, 1889)
• Arene stellata J. H. McLean, 1970
• Arene venusta (Woodring, 1928)