Lunella

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Lunella
Two shells of Lunella granulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Subfamily: Turbininae
Genus: Lunella
Röding, 1798
Synonyms[1]
  • Lunella (Lunella) Röding, 1798
  • Lunella (Ninella) Gray, 1850
  • Lunella (Subninella) Thiele, 1929
  • Turbo (Lunella) Röding, 1798 (rank change)

Lunella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Lunella include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Lunella moniliformis (Röding, 1798) : synonym of Lunella granulata (Gmelin, 1791)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lunella Röding, 1798.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 October 2011.
  2. ↑ Lunella cinerea (Born, 1778).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  3. ↑ Lunella coreensis (Récluz, 1853).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  4. ↑ Lunella coronata (Gmelin, 1791).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  5. ↑ Lunella granulata (Gmelin, 1791).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  6. ↑ Lunella ogasawarana Tomoyulo Nakano, Kyoko Takashashi & Tomowo Ozawa, 2007.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  7. ↑ Lunella smaragdus (Gmelin, 1791).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  8. ↑ Lunella (Ninella) torquata (Gmelin, 1791).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  9. ↑ Lunella (Subninella) undulata (Lightfoot, 1786).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 October 2011.
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  • Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592

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