| Lunella smaragdus | |
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| Lunella smaragdus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Turbinidae |
| Subfamily: | Turbininae |
| Genus: | Lunella |
| Species: | L. smaragdus |
| Binomial name | |
| Lunella smaragdus (Gmelin, 1791) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Turbo smaragdus, Gmelin, 1791 |
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Lunella smaragdus, the emerald moon turban, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]
There has been little published on this species.
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This species has a green operculum. The maximum shell diameter is 20 mm
Lunella smaragdus is an endemic species found both at the intertidal and low subtidal rocky shores and soft substrates (including seaweeds) of New Zealand.