Pisania 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 marine whelk 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...

 Buccinidae

Buccinidae

Buccinidae is a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks.True whelks are mostly marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda...

. Some species prey on barnacles.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species

World Register of Marine Species

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 (WoRMS) species with accepted names within the genus Pisania include:

• Pisania angusta Smith, 1899
• Pisania bernardoi
  Pisania bernardoi
  Pisania bernardoi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
  
   Costa & dos Santos Gomes, 1998
• Pisania bilirata (Reeve, 1846)
• Pisania cingulatum Reeve, 1846
• Pisania crocata
  Pisania crocata
  Pisania crocata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
  
  
• Pisania decollata (Sowerby I, 1833)
• Pisania fasciculata
  Pisania fasciculata
  Pisania fasciculata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
  
   (Reeve, 1846)
• Pisania gracilis (Sowerby, 1859)
• Pisania hedleyi (Iredale, 1912)
• Pisania hermannseni A. Adams, 1855
• Pisania ignea
  Pisania ignea
  Pisania ignea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
  
   (Gmelin, 1790)
• Pisania jenningsi (Cernohorsky, 1966)
• Pisania lirocincta G.B. Sowerby, 1910
• Pisania luctuosa
  Pisania luctuosa
  Pisania luctuosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
  
   Tapparone-Canefri, 1880
• Pisania pusio
  Pisania pusio
  Pisania pusio is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
  
   (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Pisania rosadoi
  Pisania rosadoi
  Pisania rosadoi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
  
   Bozzetti & Ferrario, 2005
• Pisania scholvieni Rolle, 1892
• Pisania solomonensis E.A.Smith, 1876
• Pisania striata
  Pisania striata
  Pisania striata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
  
   (Gmelin, 1791)
• Pisania sugimotoi (Habe, 1968-b)
• Pisania tritonoides (Reeve, 1846)
• Pisania truncatus
  Pisania truncatus
  Pisania truncatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
  
   Hinds
• Pisania unicolor (Angas, 1876)

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan database also includes the following species with names in current use

• Pisania amphodon van Martens, 1880
• Pisania crenilabrum A. Adams, 1855
• Pisania naevosa Martens, 1880

The Shell-bearing Mollusca database also adds the following names

• Pisania auritula Link, 1807 East America
• Pisania australis W. H. Pease, 1871 Australia
• Pisania billeheusti Petit, 1946 Hawaiian Islands
• Pisania brevialaxe T. Kuroda & T. Habe, 1961 Australia
• Pisania clathrata Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906 Morocco
• Pisania ferrea L. A. Reeve, 1847 Indo-Pacific
• Pisania grimaldii Ph. Dautzenberg, 1889 Australia
• Pisania hermanseni A. Adams, 1855 China
• Pisania mollis A. A. Gould, 1860 Indo-Pacific
  • Pisania pusio janeirensis d'Orbigny, 1835 Brazil
• Pisania tincta T. A. Conrad, 1846 East America

Synonymized species :

• Pisania d'orbignyi Payraudeau : synonym of Pollia dorbignyi
  Pollia dorbignyi
  Pollia dorbignyi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.-Distribution:This species is distributed in European waters, the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean along Mauritania.-References:* Vine, P. . Red Sea...
  
   (Payraudeau, 1826)
• Pisania gaskelli Melvill, 1891 : synonym of Orania gaskelli
  Orania gaskelli
  Orania gaskelli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails....
  
   (Melvill, 1891)
• Pisania laevigata Bivona-Bernardi, 1832 : synonym of Mitrella scripta
  Mitrella scripta
  Mitrella scripta, common name : the music dove shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.-Distribution:...
  
   (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Pisania rubiginosa Reeve : synonym of Pollia rubiginosa (Reeve, 1846)
• Pisania schoutanica May, 1910 : synonym of Fusus schoutanicus (May, 1910)