Arene (gastropod) explained

Arene is a genus of small sea snails that have a calcareous operculum, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Areneidae.^[1]

The genus Arene (and also the genus Cinysca) are placed within the family Areneidae, although Areneidae was not officially described as a taxon name.^[1] Areneidae is provisionally placed within the superfamily Angarioidea, according to Williams et al. (2008)^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Arene include:^[3]

• Arene adusta McLean, 1970
• Arene alta Rubio & Rolán, 2018
• Arene bairdii (W. H. Dall, 1889)
• Arene balboai (Strong & Hertlein, 1939)
• Arene bitleri Olsson & McGinty, 1958
• Arene boucheti Leal, 1991
• Arene brasiliana (W. H. Dall, 1927)
• Arene briareus (W. H. Dall, 1881)
• Arene carinata Carpenter, 1857
• Arene centrifuga (W. H. Dall, 1896)
• Arene cruentata (Mühlfeld, 1824)
• Arene curacoana Pilsbry, 1934
• Arene descensa Rubio & Rolán, 2018
• Arene echinacantha (Melvill & Standen, 1903)
• Arene echinata McLean, 1970
• Arene ferruginosa J. H. McLean, 1970
• Arene flexispina Leal & Coelho, 1985
• Arene fricki Crosse, 1865
• Arene guttata McLean, 1970
• Arene guyanensis Rubio & Rolán, 2018
• Arene hindsiana Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932
• Arene laguairana Weisbord, 1962
• Arene lucasensis Strong, 1933
• Arene lurida (W. H. Dall, 1913)
• Arene lychee Cavallari & Simone, 2018^[4]
• Arene microforis (W. H. Dall, 1889)
• Arene miniata (W. H. Dall, 1889)
• Arene notialis Marini, 1975
• Arene olivacea (W. H. Dall, 1918)
• Arene pulex Faber, 2009
• Arene riisei Rehder, 1943
• Arene socorroensis (Strong, 1934)
• Arene stellata J. H. McLean, 1970
• † Arene stephensoni Schremp, 1981 (synonym: Liotia (Arene) machapoorieensis Mansfield, 1925)^[5]
• Arene tamsiana (Philippi, 1852)
• Arene tricarinata (Stearns, 1872)
• Arene variabilis (W. H. Dall, 1889)
• Arene venusta (Woodring, 1928)
• Arene venustula Aguayo & Rehder, 1936

Other species include:^[6]

• Arene californica (W. H. Dall, 1908):^[7] synonym of Macrarene californica (W. H. Dall, 1908)
• Arene coronadensis (Stohler, 1959) = Macrarene coronadensis
• Arene diegensis J. H. McLean, 1964
• Arene farallonensis (A. G. Smith, 1952)
• Arene lepidotera (J. H. Mclean, 1970)
• Arene pacis (Dall, 1908)

Further reading

• Williams . Suzanne T. . Karube . Satoshi . Ozawa . Tomowo . Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined . Zoologica Scripta . September 2008 . 37 . 5 . 483–506 . 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00341.x .

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2013). Arene H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413481 on 2014-01-23
2. Williams . Suzanne T. . Karube . Satoshi . Ozawa . Tomowo . Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined . Zoologica Scripta . September 2008 . 37 . 5 . 483–506 . 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00341.x .
3. WoRMS (2010). Arene Adams, 1845. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413481 on 5 June 2012
4. Cavallari . Daniel Caracanhas . Simone . Luiz Ricardo Lopes de . A new species of Arene (Vetigastropoda, Areneidae) from Canopus Bank, off NE Brazil . Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia . 19 April 2018 . 58 . 23 . 10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.23 . free .
5. Schremp . Lee A. . Archeogastropoda from the Pliocene Imperial Formation of California . Journal of Paleontology . 1981 . 55 . 5 . 1123–1136 . 1304538 .
6. Cavallari . Daniel Caracanhas . Simone . Luiz Ricardo Lopes de . A new species of Arene (Vetigastropoda, Areneidae) from Canopus Bank, off NE Brazil . Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia . 19 April 2018 . 58 . 23 . 10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.23 . free .
7. Dall . William Healey . The Mollusca and the Brachiopoda . Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College . 43 . 6 . October 1908 . 203–654 .