Lotoria armata
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| Drawing of a shell of Lotoria armata (holotype) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
| Family: | Cymatiidae |
| Genus: | Lotoria |
| Species: | L. armata
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| Binomial name | |
| Lotoria armata (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897)
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Lotoria armata is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.[1]
Description
[edit]The shell has short spines surrounding it. The length of the shell attains 72 mm, its maximum diameter 42 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and Australia (Queensland). In shallow water up to 20m deep.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Lotoria armata (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 December 2018.
- Cernohorsky, W. O. (1975). "The Taxonomy of Some Indo-Pacific Mollusca: Part 3. With descriptions of new taxa and remarks on an Ecuadorian fossil species of Turridae". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 12: 213–234. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906228. Wikidata Q58677011.
- Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.
- Arthur, A.R. 1983. Notes on Cymatium armatum (Sowerby III). La Conchiglia 1983(Sep-Oct): 5
- Henning, T. & Hemmen, J. 1993. Ranellidae and Personidae of the World. Wiesbaden, Germany : V.C. Hemmen 263 pp.
- Beu A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna and revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 178: 1-255
- Beu, A.G., Bouchet, P. & Tröndlé, J. 2012. Tonnoidean gastropods of French Polynesia. Molluscan Research 32(2): 61-120
External links
[edit]- Sowerby, G. B. III. (1897). On three new shells from the collection of Mr. B.C. Thomas, of Brest. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 2(4): 137-138, pl. 11
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