Lyria grangei

Lyria grangei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Volutidae
Subfamily:	Volutinae
Genus:	Lyria
Subgenus:	Mitraelyria
Species:	L. grangei
Binomial name
	Lyria grangei; Cernohorsky, 1980

Lyria grangei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.^[1]

Description

Distribution

Lyria grangei occurs in shallow waters of the Bellona Plateau of the Coral Sea. The type series was collected on a small submerged pinnacle in the southern sides of east South Bellona on sand at (Holotype, Paratype 1), in the peripheral reef slope of northwestern margins of western South Bellona at a depth of 17 meters (Paratype 2), and from the south side of the lagoon in western South Bellona (Paratype 3)^[2].

References

^ Lyria grangei Cernohorsky, 1980. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
^ Cernohorsky, W.O. (17 December 1980). "SYSTEMATICS OF SOME WEST PACIFIC Lyria (MOLLUSCA: VOLUTIDAE) WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 17: 127–134. JSTOR 42906290.

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[WoRMS-1] Lyria grangei Cernohorsky, 1980. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.

[2] Cernohorsky, W.O. (17 December 1980). "SYSTEMATICS OF SOME WEST PACIFIC Lyria (MOLLUSCA: VOLUTIDAE) WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 17: 127–134. JSTOR 42906290.

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