Ganesa (gastropod)

Ganesa is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Skeneidae.[1]

Ganesa
Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Ganesa nitidiuscula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Skeneidae
Genus:	Ganesa Jeffreys, 1883
Type species
Ganesa nitidiuscula Jeffreys, J.G., 1883

Species

Species within the genus Ganesa include:

• Ganesa nitidiuscula Jeffreys, 1883[2]
• Ganesa panamensis Dall, 1902

Species brought into synonymy

• Ganesa abyssicola Bush, 1897: synonym of Lissospira abyssicola Bush, 1897
• Ganesa bujnitzkii (Gorbunov, 1946):[3] synonym of Lissospira bujnitzkii (Gorbunov, 1946)
• Ganesa bushae Dall, 1927: synonym of Lissospira bushae (Dall, 1927)
• Ganesa conica Dall, 1927: synonym of Lissospira conica (Dall, 1927)
• Ganesa convexa (Bush, 1897): synonym of Lissospira convexa Bush, 1897
• Ganesa dalli A. E. Verrill, 1882: synonym of Lissospira dalli (A. E. Verrill, 1882)
• Ganesa depressa Dall, 1927: synonym of Lissospira depressa (Dall, 1927)
• Ganesa diaphana A. E. Verrill, 1884: synonym of Skenea diaphana (A. E. Verrill, 1884)
• Ganesa laevigata (Friele, 1876): synonym of Skenea trochoides (Friele, 1876)
• Ganesa limata Dall, 1889: synonym of Granigyra limata (Dall, 1889)
• Ganesa ornata A. E. Verrill, 1884: synonym of Lissospira ornata (A. E. Verrill, 1884)
• Ganesa proxima Tryon, 1888: synonym of Skenea proxima (Tryon, 1888)
• Ganesa radiata Dall, 1927: synonym of Granigyra radiata Dall, 1927
• Ganesa rarinota Bush, 1897: synonym of Lissospira rarinota Bush, 1897
• Ganesa spinulosa Bush, 1897: synonym of Granigyra spinulosa Bush, 1897
• Ganesa striata Bush, 1897: synonym of Lissospira striata Bush, 1897
• Ganesa valvata Dall, 1927: synonym of Lissospira valvata (Dall, 1927)
• Ganesa verrilli Tryon, 1888: synonym of Rugulina verrilli (Tryon, 1888)

Notes

1. Ganesa . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 September 2012.
2. Ganesa nitidiuscula Jeffreys, 1883. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
3. Ganesa bujnitzkii (Gorbunov, 1946). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.

References

• Jeffreys J. G., 1878–1885: On the mollusca procured during the H. M. S. "Lightning" and "Porcupine" expedition; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Part 1 (1878): 393–416 pl. 22–23. Part 2 (1879): 553–588 pl. 45–46 [ottobre 1879]. Part 3 (1881): 693–724 pl. 61. Part 4 (1881): 922–952 pl. 70–71 [1882]. Part 5 (1882): 656–687 pl. 49–50 [1883]. Part 6 (1883): 88–115 pl. 19–20. Part 7 (1884): 111–149 pl. 9–10. Part 8 (1884): 341–372 pl. 26–28. Part 9 (1885): 27–63 pl. 4–6

• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213