Pirumella
PIRUMELLA Bolli, 1980, p.528. Calcareous dinoflagellate genus. Taxonomic senior synonym: Pithonella, by implication in Keupp (1981, p.44), who considered the "type species" of Pirumella, Pirumella edithvincentiae, to be a taxonomic junior synonym of Pithonella (now Pirumella) thayeri - however, Lentin and Williams (1993, p.577) retained Pirumella. Taxonomic junior synonym: Obliquipithonella, by implication in Lentin and Williams (1985, p.383), who illegitimately included the "type species" of Pirumella, Pirumella edithvincentiae (as a taxonomic junior synonym of Obliquipithonella thayeri) in Obliquipithonella. Although many authors have retained Obliquipithonella (e.g. Kienel, 1994, p.42), all apparently continue to include Pirumella edithvincentiae in synonymy with Obliquipithonella thayeri (e.g. Kohring, 1993a, p.79). Following this taxonomic synonymy, Obliquipithonella must continue to be considered a taxonomic junior synonym of Pirumella. Type: Bolli, 1980, pl.4, figs.1-2, as Pirumella edithvincentiae.
Parent: Subfamily Calciodinelloideae
Species List:
Pirumella amplicrystallina
Pirumella bassriverensis
Pirumella bilamellata
"Pirumella carteri"
Pirumella cookii
Pirumella cumulosa
Pirumella cylindrica
Pirumella echinosa
Pirumella edgarii
"*Pirumella edithvincentiae"
Pirumella fusiformis
Pirumella heirtzleri
Pirumella hystrichosphaeroidea
Pirumella irregularis
"Pirumella johnstonei"
Pirumella krasheninnikovii
Pirumella labyrinthica
Pirumella laquaeta
Pirumella lepidota
Pirumella loeblichii
Pirumella longiporosa
Pirumella loricata
Pirumella mcnightii
Pirumella microspinosa
Pirumella miniaperta
Pirumella multistrata
Pirumella nonarenziae
"Pirumella operculata"
Pirumella ossis
Pirumella pachystrata
Pirumella paradoxa
Pirumella parva
"Pirumella patriciagreeleyae"
Pirumella pinguis
Pirumella piriformis
Pirumella porosa
Pirumella prasina
Pirumella quiltyi
Pirumella rhombica
Pirumella robinsonii
Pirumella rockeri
"Pirumella saxea"
Pirumella scobidota
"Pirumella sheilasantawae"
Pirumella sicelis
Pirumella sliteri
Pirumella spathulata
Pirumella sphenifera
Pirumella spinosa
Pirumella squalida
Pirumella squamosa
Pirumella stellata
Pirumella strobila
Pirumella tanyphloia
+Pirumella thayeri
Pirumella titanoplax
Pirumella toichohadra
Pirumella transitoria
Pirumella usheri
Pirumella williambensonii
Pirumella zuegelii
