Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Pisaniidae
Alternative spelling: Pisaniinae
Synonym: Pusiostomatidae Iredale 1940
Parent taxon: Buccinoidea according to Y. I. Kantor et al. 2022
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Givens and Kennedy 1976, Landau and Marques da Silva 2010 and Matsubara et al. 2010
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Ameranna Anna Aplus Cancellopollia Ecmanis Engina Eopreangeria Gemophos Hesperisternia Ickarus Pisania Pollia Sinetectula Solenosteira
Type: Pisania
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), the Bahamas (1), Bermuda (4), Costa Rica (3), Djibouti (1), Ecuador (2), Eritrea (1), Indonesia (1), Japan (2), Mexico (4), Morocco (1), Panama (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Spain (1), United States (26: California, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (2)
• Pliocene of Colombia (2), Costa Rica (4), Ecuador (2), Indonesia (2), Italy (2), Japan (1), Panama (4), United States (6: California, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (4)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Miocene of Colombia (9), the Dominican Republic (5), Ecuador (1), Hungary (4), Indonesia (2), Italy (1), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Panama (24), Peru (2), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (22: California, Florida, Georgia), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene of France (9), United States (1: Florida)
• Eocene of Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), India (4), Indonesia (2), Nigeria (5), Pakistan (1), Peru (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (2: California, Washington)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Greenland (3), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 197 collections including 232 occurrences