''Lunella'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s,
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the
family
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Turbinidae, the turban snails.
The Australian Faunal Directory classifies ''Lunella'' as ''Turbo (Lunella)''
Röding, 1798
Species
Species within the genus ''Lunella'' include:
* ''
Lunella cinerea''
(Born, 1778)
* ''
Lunella coronata''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* ''
Lunella correensis''
(Récluz, 1853)[Récluz, C. A. (1853). Description de coquilles nouvelles (Genres Turbo, Triton et Mitra). Journal de Conchyliologie. 4: 49-54](_blank)
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* '' Lunella granulata'' (Gmelin, 1791)
* '' Lunella jungi'' (Lai, 2006)
* '' Lunella moniliformis'' Röding, 1798
* '' Lunella ogasawarana'' Tomoyulo Nakano, Kyoko Takashashi & Tomowo Ozawa, 2007
* '' Lunella smaragda'' (Gmelin, 1791)
* '' Lunella torquata'' (Gmelin, 1791)
* '' Lunella undulata'' (Lightfoot, 1786)
References
* Thiele, J. (1929-1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp
* Vaught, K.C. (1989). ''A classification of the living Mollusca''. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . 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
External links
Röding P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp.
Gray, J. E. (1850). [text
In: Gray, M. E., Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp. (August) [Frontispiece (portrait of Mrs. Gray); pp. ii–iv (preface); 1–62 (explanation of plates 1–312 in Volumes 1–3); pp. 63–124 (systematic arrangement of figures); 127–219 (reprint of Gray 1847)]
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
Turbinidae
Gastropod genera
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