Euspira

Euspira Temporal range:
Euspira catena
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Naticoidea
Family:	Naticidae
Genus:	Euspira Agassiz, 1838
Synonyms
† Labellinacca Cossmann, 1919 Lunatia Gray, 1847 Polinices (Euspira) Agassiz, 1838 Polinices (Lunatia) Gray, 1847

Euspira is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

Fossil reports

This genus is known in the fossil records from the Cretaceous to the Quaternary (age range: from 242.0 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata throughout the world. There are about 25 extinct species.

Fossil shell of Euspira catena from Pliocene of Italy

Species

Species within the genus Euspira include:

• Euspira abyssicola (E. A. Smith, 1896)
• Euspira agujana (Dall, W.H., 1908)
• Euspira catena (Costa, E.M. da, 1778)
• Euspira crawfordiana (Dall, 1908)
• † Euspira elegans (Suter, 1917)
• Euspira fringilla (Dall, 1881)
• Euspira fusca (Blainville, H.M.D. de, 1825)
• † Euspira fyfei (Marwick, 1924)
• Euspira grossularia (Marche-Marchad, I., 1957)
• Euspira guilleminii (Payraudeau, 1826)
• Euspira heros (Say, T., 1822)
• Euspira intricata (Donovan, 1804)
• † Euspira lateaperta (Marwick, 1924)
• Euspira levicula (A. E. Verrill, 1880)
• Euspira levis (E. A. Smith, 1896)
• Euspira litorina (Dall, 1908)
• Euspira macilenta (Philippi, 1844)
• Euspira montagui (Forbes, E., 1838)
• Euspira monterona Dall, 1919
• Euspira napus (Smith, E.A., 1904)
• Euspira nitida (Donovan, E., 1804)
• Euspira notabilis Jeffreys, 1885
• Euspira nux (Okutani, 1964)
• Euspira obtusa (Jeffreys, 1885)
• Euspira pallida (Broderip, W.J. & G.B. I Sowerby, 1829)
• Euspira pardoana (Dall, 1908)
• Euspira phaeocephala (Dautzenberg & Fischer H., 1896)
• Euspira pila (Pilsbry, H.A., 1911)
• Euspira plicispira (Kuroda, T., 1961)
• Euspira presubplicata (Bouchet & Warén, 1993)
• Euspira sagamiensis Kuroda & Habe, 1971
• Euspira strebeli (Dall, 1908)
• Euspira subplicata (Jeffreys, 1885)
• Euspira tenuis (Récluz, 1851)
• Euspira tenuistriata (Dautzenberg, Ph. & H. Fischer, 1911)
• Euspira triseriata (Say, T., 1826)
• Euspira yokoyamai (Kuroda & Habe, 1952)

Species brought into synonymy

• Euspira acosmita Dall, 1919: synonym of Cryptonatica affinis (Gmelin, 1791)
• Euspira bahamensis Dall, 1925: synonym of Sigatica semisulcata (Gray, 1839)
• Euspira canonica Dall, 1919: synonym of Euspira pallida (Broderip & G.B. Sowerby I, 1829)
• Euspira draconis (Dall, 1903): synonym of Glossaulax draconis (Dall, 1903)
• Euspira falklandica (Preston, 1913): synonym of Falsilunatia falklandica (Preston, 1913)
• Euspira fortunei (Reeve, 1855): synonym of Laguncula pulchella Benson, 1842
• Euspira immaculata (Totten, 1835): synonym of Polinices immaculatus (Totten, 1835)
• Euspira levicula (A. E. Verrill, 1880): synonym of Lunatia levicula (A.E. Verrill, 1880)
• Euspira lewisii (Gould, 1847): synonym of Lunatia lewisii (Gould, 1847)
• Euspira nana (Møller, 1842): synonym of Pseudopolinices nanus (Møller, 1842)
• Euspira patagonica (Philippi, 1845): synonym of Falsilunatia patagonica (Philippi, 1845)
• Euspira poliana (delle Chiaje, 1830): synonym of Euspira pulchella (Risso, 1826)
• Euspira politiana Dall, 1919: synonym of Lunatia pallida (Broderip & G.B. Sowerby I, 1829)
• Euspira pulchella (Risso, 1826): synonym of Euspira nitida (Donovan, 1804)
• Euspira rouxi (Nicklès, 1952): synonym of Natica rouxi Nicklès, 1952
• Euspira sandwichensis (Dall, 1895): synonym of Natica sandwichensis (Dall, 1895)
• Euspira venusta Suter, 1907: synonym of Globisinum venustum (Suter, 1907)

References

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