Lunatia fusca
| Lunatia fusca | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Naticoidea |
| Family: | Naticidae |
| Genus: | Lunatia |
| Species: | L. fusca |
| Binomial name | |
| Lunatia fusca (de Blainville, 1825) ref> Blainville H.M.D. de (1825). Natice, Natica, pp. 247-255, in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 34. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris, & Le Normant, Paris. | |
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Lunatia fusca, common name the dark necklace shell, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[1]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, European waters and the Mediterranean Sea.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bouchet, P. (2012). Lunatia fusca (Blainville, 1825). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=150587 on 2012-08-16
- 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
- Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates
- Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
- BODC (2009). Species list from the British Oceanographic Data Centre.
- Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011) Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls.