Perrona

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Kingdom Animalia Clade Caenogastropoda Clade Neogastropoda Phylum Mollusca		Class Gastropoda Clade Hypsogastropoda Superfamily Conoidea Rank Genus

Similar Clavatula, Clavatulidae, Turricula, Turridrupa, Crassispira

Perrona is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clavatulidae.

La troca perrona los razos

In this genus the spire is carinated or smooth. The whorls are not tubercular or spinose. The anal sinus can be found more or less near the suture.

Species within the genus Perrona include:

Perrona aculeiformis (Lamarck, 1816)

† Perrona anwari Abbass H., 1977

† Perrona heinmoorensis Kautsky, 1925

Perrona jessica Melvill, 1923

Perrona micro Rolan, Ryall & Horro, 2008

Perrona obesa (Reeve, 1842)

Perrona perron (Gmelin, 1791)

† Perrona semimarginata (Lamarck, 1822) (fossils from deposits in the Miocene, Burdigalian, Graves near Bordeaux, France)

Perrona spirata (Lamarck, 1816)

Perrona subspirata (Martens, 1902)

Species brought into synonymy

Perrona lineata (Lamarck, 1816): synonym of Tomellana lineata (Lamarck, 1818)

Perrona tritonum Schumacher, 1817: synonym of Perrona perron (Gmelin, 1791)

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