Lunatia
| Lunatia | |
|---|---|
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| Live specimen of Lunatia lewisii | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Naticoidea |
| Family: | Naticidae |
| Subfamily: | Polinicinae |
| Genus: | Lunatia Gray, 1847 |
| Type species | |
| Natica ampullaria Lamarck, 1822 | |
Lunatia is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[1]
Species
Species within the genus Lunatia include:
- Lunatia abyssicola (E.A. Smith, 1896)
- Lunatia agujana (Dall, 1908)
- Lunatia catena (da Costa, 1778)
- Lunatia crawfordiana (Dall, 1908)
- Lunatia fringilla (Dall, 1881)
- Lunatia fusca (Blainville, 1825)
- Lunatia grossularia (Marche-Marchad, 1957)
- Lunatia heros (Say, 1822)
- Lunatia levicula (A. E. Verrill, 1880)
- Lunatia litorina (Dall, 1908)
- Lunatia macilenta (Philippi, 1844)
- Lunatia montagui (Forbes, 1838)
- Lunatia monterona (Dall, 1919)
- Lunatia pallida (Broderip & G.B. Sowerby I, 1829)
- Lunatia pardoana (Dall, 1908)
- Lunatia pila (Pilsbry, 1911)
- Lunatia plicispira Kuroda, 1961
- Lunatia tenuis (Récluz, 1851)
- Lunatia tenuistriata (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1911)
- Lunatia triseriata (Say, 1826)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Lunatia alderi (Forbes, 1838): synonym of Euspira pulchella (Risso, 1826)
- Lunatia choshiensis Tiba, 1985: synonym of Lunatia pallida (Broderip & G.B. Sowerby I, 1829)
- Lunatia draconis Dall, 1903: synonym of Glossaulax draconis (Dall, 1903)
- Lunatia intermedia (Philippi, 1836): synonym of Euspira pulchella (Risso, 1826)
- Lunatia monilifera (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Lunatia catena (da Costa, 1778)
- Lunatia nitidia auct. non Donovan, 1800: synonym of Euspira pulchella (Risso, 1826)
- Lunatia nux Okutani, 1964: synonym of Euspira nux (Okutani, 1964)
- Lunatia poliana (Della Chiaje, 1826): synonym of Euspira pulchella (Risso, 1826)
- Lunatia sordida (Philippi, 1844): synonym of Lunatia fusca (Blainville, 1825)
References
- ↑ Bouchet, P. (2012). Lunatia. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=150577 on 2012-07-12
- Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
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