Lunatia

Lunatia is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[1]

Lunatia
Live specimen of Neverita lewisii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Naticoidea
Family:
Naticidae
Subfamily:
Polinicinae
Genus:
Lunatia

Gray, 1847
Type species
Natica ampullaria Lamarck, 1822

The species in this genus have been brought in synonymy mostly with Euspira

Torigoe & Inaba (2011) provided a rather arbitrary assignment of species to respectively Euspira and Lunatia and this has been at one time uploaded in the WoRMS classification. However this is not based on any in-depth phylogenetic analysis and has proved inconsistent when some closely related European species (e.g. Euspira guillemini, E. macilenta) were then not congeneric. Until a substantiated phylogenetic hypothesis is published for the group, Lunatia is here considered a junior subjective synonym of Euspira and all the species accepted under Euspira, following in this Marincowich (1977), Kabat (1991) and the Malacolog database.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Lunatia include:

  • Lunatia abyssicola (E.A. Smith, 1896): synonym of Euspira abyssicola (E. A. Smith, 1896)
  • Lunatia agujana (Dall, 1908): synonym of Euspira agujana (Dall, 1908)
  • Lunatia alderi (Forbes, 1838): synonym of Euspira pulchella (Risso, 1826)
  • Lunatia bransfieldensis Preston, 1916: synonym of Amauropsis bransfieldensis (Preston, 1916)
  • Lunatia catena (da Costa, 1778): synonym of Euspira catena (da Costa, 1778)
  • Lunatia choshiensis Tiba, 1985: synonym of ''Euspira pallida (Broderip & G.B. Sowerby I, 1829)
  • Lunatia crawfordiana (Dall, 1908): synonym of Euspira crawfordiana (Dall, 1908)
  • Lunatia draconis Dall, 1903: synonym of Glossaulax draconis (Dall, 1903)
  • Lunatia fringilla (Dall, 1881): synonym of Euspira fringilla (Dall, 1881)
  • Lunatia fusca (Blainville, 1825): synonym of Euspira fusca (Blainville, 1825)
  • Lunatia gilva (Philippi, 1851): synonym of Laguncula pulchella Benson, 1842
  • Lunatia grossularia (Marche-Marchad, 1957): synonym of Euspira grossularia (Marche-Marchad, 1957)
  • Lunatia guilleminii (Payraudeau, 1826): synonym of Euspira guilleminii (Payraudeau, 1826)
  • Lunatia heros (Say, 1822): synonym of Euspira heros (Say, 1822)
  • Lunatia intermedia (Philippi, 1836): synonym of Euspira nitida (Donovan, 1804)
  • Lunatia levicula (A. E. Verrill, 1880): synonym of Euspira levicula (A. E. Verrill, 1880)
  • Lunatia lewisii (Gould, 1847): synonym of Neverita lewisii (Gould, 1847)
  • Lunatia litorina (Dall, 1908): synonym of Euspira litorina (Dall, 1908)
  • Lunatia macilenta (Philippi, 1844): synonym of Euspira macilenta (Philippi, 1844)
  • Lunatia monilifera (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Euspira catena (da Costa, 1778)
  • Lunatia montagui (Forbes, 1838): synonym of Euspira montagui (Forbes, 1838)
  • Lunatia monterona (Dall, 1919): synonym of Euspira monterona Dall, 1919
  • Lunatia nitidia auct. non Donovan, 1800: synonym of Euspira nitida (Donovan, 1804)
  • Lunatia nux Okutani, 1964: synonym of Euspira nux (Okutani, 1964)
  • Lunatia pallida (Broderip & G.B. Sowerby I, 1829): synonym of Euspira pallida (Broderip & Sowerby, 1829)
  • Lunatia pardoana (Dall, 1908): synonym of Euspira pardoana (Dall, 1908)
  • Lunatia pila (Pilsbry, 1911): synonym of Euspira pila (Pilsbry, 1911)
  • Lunatia plicispira Kuroda, 1961: synonym of Euspira plicispira (Kuroda, 1961)
  • Lunatia poliana (Della Chiaje, 1826): synonym of Euspira pulchella (Risso, 1826)
  • Lunatia sordida (Philippi, 1844): synonym of Euspira fusca (Blainville, 1825)
  • Lunatia tenuis (Récluz, 1851): synonym of Euspira tenuis (Récluz, 1851)
  • Lunatia tenuistriata (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1911): synonym of Euspira tenuistriata (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1911)
  • Lunatia triseriata (Say, 1826): synonym of Euspira triseriata (Say, 1826)
  • Lunatia yokoyamai (Kuroda & Habe, 1952): synonym of Euspira yokoyamai (Kuroda & Habe, 1952)

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Lunatia. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=150577 on 2012-07-12
  • Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
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