Lunella Explained

Lunella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.

The Australian Faunal Directory classifies Lunella as Turbo (Lunella) Röding, 1798 ^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Lunella include:

• Lunella cinerea (Born, 1778)
• Lunella coronata (Gmelin, 1791)
• Lunella correensis (Récluz, 1853)^[2]
• Lunella granulata (Gmelin, 1791)
• Lunella jungi (Lai, 2006)
• Lunella moniliformis Röding, 1798
• Lunella ogasawarana Tomoyulo Nakano, Kyoko Takashashi & Tomowo Ozawa, 2007
• Lunella smaragda (Gmelin, 1791)
• Lunella torquata (Gmelin, 1791)
• Lunella undulata (Lightfoot, 1786)
• Lunella viridicallus (Jousseaume, 1898)

References

• Thiele, J. (1929-1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp
• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . 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

External links

• Röding P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp.
• Gray, J. E. (1850). [text]. In: Gray, M. E., Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp. (August) [Frontispiece (portrait of Mrs. Gray); pp. ii–iv (preface); 1–62 (explanation of plates 1–312 in Volumes 1–3); pp. 63–124 (systematic arrangement of figures); 127–219 (reprint of Gray 1847)]
• 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

Notes and References

1. http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/Turbo_(Lunella)/names Australian Faunal Directory: Turbo (Lunella)
2. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15859412 Récluz, C. A. (1853). Description de coquilles nouvelles (Genres Turbo, Triton et Mitra). Journal de Conchyliologie. 4: 49-54