Lunella
| Lunella | |
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| Two shells of Lunella granulata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Turbinidae |
| Genus: | Lunella Röding, 1798 |
| Type species | |
| Turbo versicolor Gmelin, 1791 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Lunella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]
The Australian Faunal Directory classifies Lunella as Turbo (Lunella) Röding, 1798 [2]
Species
Species within the genus Lunella include:
- Lunella cinerea (Born, 1778)[3]
- Lunella coreensis (Récluz, 1853)[4]
- Lunella coronata (Gmelin, 1791)[5]
- Lunella correensis (Récluz, 1853)[4]
- Lunella granulata (Gmelin, 1791)[6]
- Lunella jungi (Lai, 2006)
- Lunella moniliformis Röding, 1798
- Lunella ogasawarana Tomoyulo Nakano, Kyoko Takashashi & Tomowo Ozawa, 2007[7]
- Lunella smaragda (Gmelin, 1791)[8]
- Lunella torquata (Gmelin, 1791)[9]
- Lunella undulata (Lightfoot, 1786)[10]
- Lunella viridicallus (Jousseaume, 1898)
References
- ^ a b Lunella Röding, 1798. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 October 2011.
- ^ Australian Faunal Directory: Turbo (Lunella)
- ^ Lunella cinerea (Born, 1778). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ^ a b Lunella coreensis (Récluz, 1853). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ^ Lunella coronata (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ^ Lunella granulata (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ^ Lunella ogasawarana Tomoyulo Nakano, Kyoko Takashashi & Tomowo Ozawa, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ^ Lunella smaragdus (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ^ Lunella (Ninella) torquata (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ^ 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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