Pellasimnia angasi (Reeve 1865)

Pellasimnia angasi, common name Angas's volva, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.^[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 38 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Japan and Australia.

References

• Schilder, F.A., 1932. The living species of Amphiperatinae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 20 (1): 46–64
• Cate, C. N. 1973. A systematic revision of the recent Cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger 15 (supplement): 1–117
• Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks.