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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Ovulidae |
| Genus: | Pellasimnia |
| Species: | P. angasi
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| Binomial name | |
| Pellasimnia angasi (Reeve, 1865)
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Description
editThe size of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 38 mm.
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Distribution
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This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Japan and Australia.
References
edit- ^ a b Pellasimnia angasi (Reeve, 1865). WoRMS (2009). Pellasimnia angasi (Reeve, 1865). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=431083 on 22 October 2011 .
- 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.
External links
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- "Pellasimnia angasi". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 22 October 2011.