Poirieria

Taxobox
name = "Poirieria"


image_caption = "Poirieria zelandica"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
familia = Muricidae
subfamilia = Muricinae
genus = "Poirieria"
genus_authority = Jousseaume, 1880
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Poirieria" is a genus of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the rock snails.

Species

* "Poirieria bowdenensis" E. H. Vokes, 1970
* "Poirieria kopua" Dell, 1956
* "Poirieria nuttingi" (Dall, 1896)
* "Poirieria pazi" (Crosse, 1869)
* "Poirieria stimpsonii" (Dall, 1889)
* "Poirieria syrinx" Marshall & Houart,1995
* "Poirieria zelandica" (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

References

* [http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt ITIS]
* Powell A W B, "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* Glen Pownall, "New Zealand Shells and Shellfish", Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 85467 054 8