Blood Stained Simnia

Pseudosimnia carnea, common name the dwarf red egg shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.^[1]

The subspecies Pseudosimnia carnea expallescens Schilder, 1967is a taxon inquirendum.

Description

The size of the shell varies between 8 mm and 19 mm.

Distribution

This * Occurs in the Mediterranean Sea, off Northwest Africa (Senegal); off the West Indies.

References

• Coen G. (1933). Saggio di una Sylloge Molluscorum Adriaticorum. Memorie del Regio Comitato Talassografico Italiano 192: pp. i-vii, 1-186
• Coen, G. (1949). Nota su alcune forme nuove di Cypreacea. Historia Naturalis. 3(1): 13-18
• Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks